A Wide Spectrum of Solutions for Workplace Retirement Plans
Enabling stewardship of your retirement plans and maximizing value realized by your employees
Conflict of Interest Audit (COI)
An independent review focused on identifying and ameliorating conflict of interest services structures in employer-sponsored retirement plans.
Ongoing Plan Monitoring
Monitor plan operations and providers to ensure adherence to contract terms and enforce provider adherence to representations about the provider plan participant service model and includes an analysis of plan distributions.
Plan Stewardship
Our plan stewardship analysis provides employers with the tools to enhance the governance of their defined contribution retirement plans.
The three key elements of plan stewardship:
Impact Analysis
Receive a customized plan impact analysis of conflicted service structures for an in-depth understanding of how direct and indirect compensation models impact the plan and its participants.
Actuarial Services
An array of actuarial resources to provide you the analytical tools to better serve as a plan steward–including retirement income modeling and assessing the cost to participants of conflicted plan providers.
Consulting & Special Projects
We can support a variety of vendor-management and plan governance initiatives.
Staying on top of rapidly changing developments
Spence v. American Airlines: Expanding the Playing Field for Fiduciary Liability?
A federal court in Texas has ruled that American Airlines breached its duty of loyalty under ERISA by failing to respond to activities undertaken by a plan investment manager (BlackRock) supporting ESG initiatives. The court was unable to find a breach of prudence—rather it relied solely on the obligation of “loyalty.”
Trump 2.0: Some Predictions
As we enter 2025 there is much speculation about the policies the Trump administration (“Trump 2.0”) will pursue. This blog discusses what might occur under the incoming administration with respect to retirement plans and how the incoming administration could shape the retirement plan landscape.
New Front on Fiduciary Litigation?
As employers have become more attuned to their fiduciary responsibilities, plaintiffs’ attorneys have had to dig deeper to find a basis for suing plan sponsors. Two recent court decisions (Hutchins v. HP Inc and Perez-Cruet v. Qualcomm Inc) reflect diametrically opposing judicial responses to the same new litigation strategy, The Claims Both Hutchins and Perez-Cruet […]