Three Things You Should Know About Your 401(k) Plan if You Are Selling or Buying a Company Buying or selling a company is an expensive and confusing process, often ...

Changes in MEPs – Is This the Solution You’ve Been Looking For? by Ilene Ferenczy, Attorney, Ferenczy Benefits Law Center Multiple Employer Plans (MEPs) are one way by which ...

ASK THE LAWYER: WILL THE DOL’S MEP PROPOSAL MAKE MEPS AVAILABLE TO YOU? by Carol Buckmann “Will a MEP become an option for me now?” Shortly after my last column ...

Tax-Qualified Retirement Plan – Dynamic Cost Structures. Fred Barstein, Founder and CEO of The Plan Sponsor University (TPSU), recently caught-up with esteemed retirement plan advisor and Certified 401(k) Professional, ...

Top 10 Mistakes 401k Plan Sponsors Make – Mistake #5 – Missing Documents. When the IRS or DOL come calling for an audit, they generally start with a request ...

QDIA Lawsuits: A New Fiduciary Risk for 401k Plan Sponsors. Here’s a new risk for plan sponsors to be aware of: you could be sued based on the qualified default ...

Settlor Functions paid out of 401k Plan Assets Cause Fines and Repayments. Louis LiBrandi of the employee benefits accounting firm PKF O’Connor Davies explains the difference between settlor and administrative ...

Retirement Plan – It’s Never Really Free by Jeffrey Zielinski, CRPC®, CRPS® Understanding fee arrangements within retirement plans is imperative for a plan sponsor. While there is a number of ways ...

Don Trone Interview – Part 2: What Should Plan Sponsors Do Now? Now that the DOL’s Fiduciary rule has been vacated by a federal court, what should plan sponsors ...

Trone: Why DOL Fiduciary Rule was flawed and what 401k Plan Sponsors should be doing now. In an exclusive interview as part of our “FRED 401k Talks” series, Don ...