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This article originally appeared in the Summer 2015 issue of Plan Consultant. To view a PDF version, please click here.Put 50 cats in a field. They’ll head off in all directions except for areas denied them. But there will be certain things they’ll agree on, like the urgency of finding that field... READ MORE
This article originally appeared in the Summer 2015 issue of Plan Consultant. To view a PDF version, please click here.At the beginning of a recent business trip, I was picked up by an elderly gentleman who was transporting me from my house to the car rental company. As is true for most sales folks... READ MORE
This article originally appeared in the Summer 2015 issue of Plan Consultant. To view a PDF version, please click here.When working in the employee benefits field, a practitioner needs a solid grounding in his or her specialty. Whether an administrator, an investment advisor, an attorney, an... READ MORE
This article originally appeared in the Summer 2015 issue of Plan Consultant. To view a PDF version, please click here.The cash balance industry is booming right now. Plans are going in at a rate faster than the 401(k) industry. Every year more and more sponsors are shown these designs and more and... READ MORE
This article originally appeared in the Summer 2015 issue of Plan Consultant. To view a PDF version, please click here.Clichés are interesting because they present something of a paradox: They are statements of some fundamental truth or something that is universally understood, but are so shopworn... READ MORE
This article originally appeared in the Spring 2015 issue of Plan Consultant. To view a PDF version of this article, please click here.Third party administrators are at the vanguard of assisting employers in designing 401(k) plans that improve the probability that a participant will achieve a... READ MORE
This article originally appeared in the Spring 2015 issue of Plan Consultant. To view a PDF version, please click here.This article is the last in a three-part series summarizing the fiduciary responsibilities of those who sponsor retirement plans that are not subject to ERISA. Part 1, published in... READ MORE
This article originally appeared in the Spring 2015 issue of Plan Consultant. To view a PDF version of this article, please click here.The highly publicized Internet theft of confidential information from Sony Pictures last year was an object lesson in the risks of doing business in a digital world... READ MORE
This article originally appeared in the Spring 2015 issue of Plan Consultant. To view a PDF version, please click here.Public pension plans are in my blood. My father was a plan trustee for a multiple employer state system in Missouri for 28 years. After meeting the system’s actuary, I decided at... READ MORE
This article originally appeared in the Spring 2015 issue of Plan Consultant. To view a PDF version, please click here.’Twas the weeks before Christmas, and all through the land,Trustees were worried about multiemployer plans.They wrung their hands, and shook heads to and fro,PPA would expire; zone... READ MORE
This article originally appeared in the Spring 2015 issue of Plan Consultant. To view a PDF version, please click here.Cash balance retirement plans offer many benefits for a business owner. Generally, cash balance plans are established by successful privately held small businesses. A consultant... READ MORE
This article originally appeared in the Spring 2015 issue of Plan Consultant. To view a PDF version of this article, please click here.ERISA requires that “[e]very fiduciary of an employee benefit plan and every person who handles funds or other property of such a plan...shall be bonded.”  The bond... READ MORE
This article originally appeared in the Winter 2015 issue of Plan Consultant. To view a PDF version, please click here.This article is the second in a three-part series that summarizes the fiduciary responsibilities for those who sponsor retirement plans that are not subject to ERISA. Part 1,... READ MORE
This article originally appeared in the Winter 2015 issue of Plan Consultant. To view a PDF version of this article, please click here.In most civil litigation, the plaintiff has the burden to prove the allegations that are alleged in the complaint. In cases alleging breach of fiduciary duty under... READ MORE
This article originally appeared in the Winter 2015 issue of Plan Consultant. To view a PDF version, please click here.When one is part of a huge assemblage pouring inexorably forward, it can be instructive to step to the side and take a look back at the advancing crowd to take stock of the... READ MORE
This article originally appeared in the Winter 2015 issue of Plan Consultant. To view a PDF version, please click here.A lot has changed in the benefit plan industry over the last 18 years. In particular, changes in regulations and reporting requirements and increasing complexity have made it more... READ MORE
This article originally appeared in the Winter 2015 issue of Plan Consultant. To view a PDF version, please click here.Businesses consist of sole proprietors, partnerships and corporations, not to mention LLC organizations. These entities often work together and often have greater or lesser... READ MORE
This article originally appeared in the Fall 2014 issue of Plan Consultant. To view a PDF version, please click here.Revenue sharing arrangements between record keepers and third party administrators have been in place since the daily valuation movement first gained popularity. These arrangements... READ MORE
This article originally appeared in the Fall 2014 issue of Plan Consultant. To view a PDF version, please click here.I was recently retained by a law firm on behalf of a client that was randomly audited by the Department of Labor. During the audit, the DOL asked the plan sponsor to provide... READ MORE
This article originally appeared in the Fall 2014 issue of Plan Consultant. To view a PDF version, please click here.Required minimum distributions (RMDs) remain a very specialized area within retirement plan administration — with their own depth of rules, exceptions to the rules and special... READ MORE

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