Do you watch your clients fight inertia and inexperience when trying to manage their 401(k) investments? Do you continue to give them free advice on their held-away retirement plan assets? 401K GPS gives you more time to build revenue and relationships by delivering timely, professional and personalized investment guidance directly to your clients – plus a technology edge to fight off “robo-advisors”.

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Advisors Ahead provides the Millennial onboarding platform for Associate Financial Advisors with a structured training path enhanced by their Mentoring, Guidance and Accountability system while they are working within the FA team to “learn by watching success”.

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Aegis International (Aegis) is a personal, private, and highly impactful sales development and sales leadership firm - with over two decades of experience in helping small to large financial planning firms grow, manage, and exit their business. We help build the business your people (and your clients) would fight to be in no matter where your competition will come from.

Through our lens of the global advice market, we help advice firms craft a repeatable and remarkable client experience to fend off the considerable changes taking place here in the US market.  We invite you to consider our services in light of the looming disruption.

Aegis is simply a better way to build your business and through the 401K Study Group we offer a remarkably elegant model to embrace the change you need.

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Flat Fee Only Services with ZERO financial incentives. True Open Architecture. Schwab's National Advisory Board since 2004. ETF's since 2008. Ahead and pulling away. Build something special with them.

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Blooom is an online advisor that manages 401ks for individual investors. In under five minutes blooom can fix a participant's 401k and keep it fixed - without complicated charts that have a zillion colors. Blooom is also 401k advisor friendly - helping advisors save time and create future rollover opportunities.

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Integrated Recordkeeper+TPA; Supporting nearly all Open Architecture Trading Platforms; MEP specialists, whether Open, PEO, Association, etc.

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Edu(k)ate partners with Financial Advisors and Plan Sponsors to solve the financial challenges facing employees. We empower Financial Advisors to deliver modern-day financial education that is both ERISA compliant and scalable across large organizations. Our data-driven solution allows for targeted communication and engaging contests that are proven to produce more financially savvy employees.

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EPIC Retirement Plan Services is dedicated to meeting the recordkeeping, administration, actuarial, marketing and communication needs of an ever-evolving retirement plan marketplace. Our missing is to set the leadership standard in delivering innovative solutions, progressive technology, and exceptional client service. We create long-term relationships built on the strengths of EPIC RPS and our partners’ expectations of excellence.
 

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Cloud based tool allowing FAs to deliver tactical plan advice to clients and participants for fees the FA sets and EZA does the rest. Take a test drive at http://4kadv.ez-adviser.com/registration

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Fi360 helps its clients gather, grow, and protect assets through better investment and business decision-making. Since 1999, Fi360 has been providing innovative solutions to financial services providers, including the AIF® and AIFA® designation programs, the Fi360 Toolkit™ software, and Fi360 Fiduciary Score®. With extensive education, certification, software, and practice management offerings, Fi360 is a one-stop shop equipped to provide individuals and organizations with the training, tools, and resources necessary to become more successful.
 
 

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Fiduciary Benchmarks was founded in October 2007. We knew the industry needed an independent, comprehensive and informative benchmarking service that would help service providers and the plan sponsors they serve fulfill their duties under ERISA regardless of plan size. We do this while making sure that the service providers, the plan sponsor and the plan participants all benefit from a determination of fee reasonableness.

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Many fiduciaries are not fully aware of how to meet their fiduciary duties. FiduciaryPath can help you understand your fiduciary responsibilities and manage your investment process to an appropriate standard of fiduciary care. If your firm already has excellent fiduciary processes in place, it can be publicly acknowledged by earning CEFEX Certification from the Centre for Fiduciary Excellence. FiduciaryPath has the expertise to assess your fiduciary practices, for certification, or to help you put excellent practices in place.

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Fluent Technologies, founded in 1994, provides technology and services to retirement professionals in the small- to mid-plan market. We have a history of aggregating and analyzing retirement plan data and transforming it into action-based insight. We stand by our slogan, “smart data that speaks to your markets”.
 
Our product, UtopiaAdvisor®, is a comprehensive technology platform and suite of applications designed for recordkeepers, RIA practices, and Advisors. UtopiaAdvisor allows plan advisors to:
 

• Screen for new business opportunities
• Evaluate financial fitness at the participant and plan level
• Uncover opportunities for boosting participation and engagement
• Retain small business sponsors by easing their fiduciary burden
• Drive better plan and participant outcomes

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LFE has specialized in unbiased Financial Wellness services for more than 2 decades. Our engaging on-demand and electronic tools provide value-added solutions to advisors and Plan Providers, with access to more than 65 multi-generational videos (see Video Overview), the new Smart Money Certification (SMC) money-mastery skills testing, and e-learning education throughout the year. You’ll also have access to customized sales tools and videos, analytics, and resources to deliver over 40 onsite workshop topics, and more.

LFE’s education is unique in that each tool answers specific questions, and provides practical solutions to broad-based real-life problems, including how to: Cut rising college and healthcare costs, eliminate student loan debt, make smart buying decisions, avoid defaults, garnishments, and the latest scams, find more money to invest, build retirement readiness skills, etc.

Advisors are also able to target Millennials – and their parents – through the new SMC-College, a Financial Literacy & Certification program for college students. See SMC-College Video & Syllabus.

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Retirement doesn’t mean what it used to. Your clients and their participants are facing a host of new challenges and expect comprehensive, thoughtful solutions. They rely on your expertise in this ever-changing environment, as well as your independent perspective, to help them achieve their objectives.

Manning & Napier, an investment manager with more than 45 years of experience, believes in a ProActive approach to retirement, and is committed to equipping our retirement plan advisor partners with the tools and resources necessary to give that experience to their clients.

Resources
Access resources on a variety of timely topics including QDIA due diligence, health savings accounts, fiduciary best practices, and more.

Tools
Access custom information, analytics, and tools designed to help you support your plan sponsor clients, including target date comparison reports.

Investment Outlook
Leverage our in-depth research and economic analysis, and unique perspective on the current retirement landscape.

Regulatory Updates
Stay up-to-date on regulatory issues and get your regulatory questions answered through our Regulatory FAQs series.

Solutions
We offer solutions in a variety of vehicles for all of your plan sponsors’ needs.

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On April 1st, 1974, Robert Meeder Sr. established our firm with one goal in mind – to provide clients with investment solutions designed to improve investor outcomes. Our first clients were retirement plans, and over 40 years later we are still committeed to serving the needs of plans and participants. We offer a range of highly customizable solutions to help retirement plan sponsors meet their fiduciary obligations while never losing sight of our original goal to improve investment outcomes for all plan participants.
 

PLAN SPONSORS
Navigating the complexities of changing rules and regulations set forth by the Department of Labor, and staying in compliance, is often confusing and time consuming; especially when retirement plan administration is not a primary focus of the job. Meeder can help alleviate some of that pressure with our suite of retirement solutions, including fiduciary partnership.

PLAN PARTICIPANTS
We understand that not everyone is passionate about researching individual securities and monitoring the markets. We offer a range of investment solutions on multiple platforms to help participants invest to and through retirement.

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MillenniuM Investment & Retirement Advisors is a group of seasoned pension professionals helping investors meet their goals. MillenniuM is an independent, employee-owned investment advisory firm. We provide unbiased, fee-only consulting services.

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NAPLIA is an independent, nationally recognized insurance agency providing Professional Liability, Management Liability, Cyber Insurance and Fidelity Bonding to Registered Investment Advisors, TPAs, Plan Sponsors and other select plan fiduciaries.

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NH Hicks was founded by Tom Hicks in 1992. We are a fee only third party pension administration and consulting firm with the expertise to design and administer retirement plans individually designed for each client. Tom Hicks, Attorney at Law, has over 30 years’ experience in pension administration, consulting and business management. NH Hicks is a multigenerational company with one goal: to provide the best service to our clients by working closely with their tax and financial advisors.

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We provide high quality development services in all the key areas to help your business stay up to date and on top. Responsive Websites, Mobile Apps, Database and Reporting, Custom Integrations, Cloud Solutions, SharePoint, and Azure.

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There’s a reason PCS is consistently ranked as one of the fastest growing companies in America by Inc. 5000. Beyond our unwavering commitment to excellent customer service, we are also driven to offer the most advanced platform in the industry. Our AccountLink System incorporates robust technology that makes your job easier, like streamlined payroll processing, detailed plan and participant views, third-party software integration, automated funding requests, and on-demand reporting and our AdvisorLab 401k toolkit. It’s all a part of our commitment to our clients, and the promise of delivering The Next Generation Retirement Plan.

Plan Types
PCS offers an array of plan types and arrangements. They include:
• 401(k) Plans
• 403(b) Plans
• 457(b) & (f) Plans
• Profit Sharing Arrangements
• Non-Qualified Retirement Plans
• IRA Plans
• Solo(k) Plans
• And more

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Penret Services, Inc., a Swerdlin Company, provides actuarial, consulting, recordkeeping and administrative services for qualified and nonqualified retirement plans. The types of plans we service include 401(k), ESOP, KSOP, Defined Benefit, Cash Balance, etc. We are not investment advisors and therefore rely on the client’s advisors for the selection of investments. Penret provides a high level of personalized and caring service. Whether your organization is large or small, or if your challenges are simple or complex, Penret can help create better retirement outcomes for your plan participants.

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Pension Assurance LLP was founded with the realization that retirement plan audits are too specialized to be part of a full-service accounting firm’s long list of service offerings. With the ever changing regulatory, accounting, and auditing landscape, it’s a full-time, year-round job to keep up. We believe that we can bring significant value to a client by bringing in the highest level of expertise and service in an efficient manner to save the client time and money while providing valuable education and peace of mind.

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Pentegra is a leading provider of retirement plan and fiduciary outsourcing solutions to clients nationwide.  
With every retirement solution, we bring the same focus—relieving you of the fiduciary and administrative burdens that come with sponsoring a retirement plan. With expertise with every conceivable plan type and design, including specialized expertise in MEPs and Group Trusts, and ability to serve in various fiduciary roles, including 3(16) Plan Administrator, Named Fiduciary and Discretionary or Directed Trustee, we partner with firms as an independent resource to bring maximum flexibility to every opportunity and bring your solution together seamlessly.
Help drive more successful retirement outcomes for your clients with Pentegra. Contact the Pentegra Solutions Center at 855-549-6689 or solutions@pentegra.com, visit us at www.pentegra.com and join our conversation on social media.
 

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We're Plan Design Consultants, Inc. a retirement company that since 1975 has been providing businesses with affordable, quality plans customized to meet the specific needs of our clients.

Over four decades in the business has given PDC the experiences we need to evolve our service model to what it is today.  A smart, easy process centered on the needs of our clients.  A service model designed to be AWESOME!

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Plancheckr is the Gold Standard in DOL Audit Protection. Plancheckr protects you from costly penalties imposed by The Department of Labor (DOL) if you fail an audit. Make sure this never happens to any of your clients using Plancheckr’s DOL 401k audit requirements checklist and audit report. The DOL’s primary goal is to protect plan participants; Plancheckr’s goal is to protect Advisors and Sponsors. Plan Advisors can ensure there are no errors in the plan by creating an annual plan review to go over with their plan sponsors

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Plancheckr is the Gold Standard in DOL Audit Protection. Plancheckr protects you from costly penalties imposed by The Department of Labor (DOL) if you fail an audit. Make sure this never happens to any of your clients using Plancheckr’s DOL 401k audit requirements checklist and audit report. The DOL’s primary goal is to protect plan participants; Plancheckr’s goal is to protect Advisors and Sponsors. Plan Advisors can ensure there are no errors in the plan by creating an annual plan review to go over with their plan sponsors.

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Integrating both securities- and ERISA-related expertise, Retirement Law Group delivers comprehensive legal solutions to retirement plan professionals. From proactive consulting to remediation, RLG also provides guidance to plan sponsors and fiduciaries relating to the design, operation, governance and management of employer-sponsored retirement plans. Legal services can be performed on a flat-fee or hourly basis.

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RolloverSaver® is a Missing Participant IRA provider offering an easy Rollover Solution.  RolloverSaver® supports Plan Sponsors, Third Party Administrators (TPAs), Record Keepers, Providers and Advisors through a fully automated proprietary technology solution.  RolloverSaver has been around since 2005 and is headquartered in Costa Mesa, CA.

There is no cost to the Plan Sponsor, TPA, Advisor, Provider, or Record Keeper to implement this solution.  It is an easy 3-step process to rolling over missing participants, terminated plans and uncashed checks.  There are no minimum rollover requirements.

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ShoeFitts Marketing identifies, creates, and implements inspired marketing and social media strategies and solutions for their clients so those clients can focus on doing what they love. We are experts within the retirement plan space with extensive insight and experience working within this regulated environment. How did all this know-how materialize? From decades of working in the financial services marketplace, of course.

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Swerdlin & Company, founded over 3 decades ago, provides actuarial, consulting, recordkeeping and administrative services for qualified and nonqualified retirement plans. The types of plans we service include 401(k), ESOP, KSOP, Defined Benefit, Cash Balance, etc. We are not investment advisors and therefore rely on the client’s advisors for the selection of investments. Swerdlin provides a high level of personalized and caring service. Whether your organization is large or small, or if your challenges are simple or complex, Swerdlin can help create better retirement outcomes for your plan participants.

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T. Rowe Price Retirement Plan Services, Inc. is rooted in over 30 years of experience working with plan sponsors, as well as the advisors and third-party administrators who can be critical to a plan’s success. We understand that building a successful plan in today’s uncertain environment is more complex than ever. We also believe in developing innovative solutions that will drive participant outcomes over the long term.

Choosing T. Rowe Price is a smart decision:

• Defined contribution plan service provider since 1982
• Recognized for exceptional client service
• Service team supported by advanced systems capabilities
• Easy plan account access for sponsors, dvisors, and participants
• Comprehensive education and communications resources
• Leading investment management firm for over 75 years
• Reputation for delivering solid long-term investment performance
• Pioneer in target date investments and their use as qualified default investment alternatives

Four retirement plan service offerings designed to meet the unique needs of your clients:

• Essential Choice^SM- A streamlined solution for emerging plans
• Focus Choice^SM - A progressive solution for growing plans
• Tailored Choice^SM - A flexible solution for expanding companies
• Enterprise Choice^SM - A solution to satisfy the unique needs of highly complex plans

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The Rosenbaum Law Firm P.C. helps plan sponsors and retirement plan providers at a flat fee through the maze of Internal Revenue Service and ERISA compliance

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Tom Clark, JD LLM works with plan sponsors on all aspects of employee benefit programs, but has a particular expertise working with retirement industry providers. He previously represented participants in prominent excessive fee lawsuits including Tibble v. Edison, which recently was heard by the Supreme Court. Tom is also an adjunct law professor teaching ERISA Fiduciary Law and is editor in chief of the Fiduciary Matters Blog which provides analysis on prominent ERISA lawsuits.

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Unified Trust, a nationally chartered trust company, is one of only a handful of discretionary trustees in the country today. Founded by Dr. Gregory Kasten in the mid-80’s, Unified Trust accepts the accept highest level of fiduciary responsibility under ERISA and takes discretion for the assets of every plan under management. We’re bound by law to always act in the best interest of participants and to do so using a prudent expert standard of care. Through our role as discretionary trustee, our UnifiedPlan® Managed Account Solution and working closely with our advisor partners, we’re able to dramatically improve outcomes for participants, nearly tripling the percentage of participants on track for a successful retirement compared to most industry averages.

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