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Ary Rosenbaum - The Rosenbaum Law Firm P.C.

Fidelity’s Q1 2025 Retirement Data: Encouraging Signals, But Let’s Keep It Real

Fidelity just dropped their Q1 2025 retirement analysis, and while average balances for 401(k), 403(b), and IRAs dipped slightly due to market volatility, there’s some good news buried under the market noise: participants...more

Ary Rosenbaum - The Rosenbaum Law Firm P.C.

The Problem of Organizational Drift For 401(k) Plan Providers

I enjoy business history and why certain businesses and organizations fail. I knew Sears and Blockbuster Video would fail, years ahead of time. I knew the synagogue where I was a member and where my son had his bris, would...more

Ary Rosenbaum - The Rosenbaum Law Firm P.C.

Choices are good unless it cannibalizes your business

You know what everyone’s talking about lately in the retirement plan world? Pooled Employer Plans — PEPs! Yeah, PEPs. Like they’re the second coming of sliced bread. Spoiler alert: they’re not....more

Ary Rosenbaum - The Rosenbaum Law Firm P.C.

The problem with stock market volatility

I have experienced several bear markets as an ERISA attorney, and it’s never easy, especially with the current volatility due to tariffs....more

Ary Rosenbaum - The Rosenbaum Law Firm P.C.

These 401(k) average balances aren’t good

I remember when I was a kid and someone else’s parent bragged about how well their kid was doing. As a child and parent, I will attest that no one whose parents bragged they were a genius, was an actual genius. In addition,...more

Ary Rosenbaum - The Rosenbaum Law Firm P.C.

The Intangibles You Need To Succeed In The 401(k) Business

The most disappointing part of going to law school was the lack of practicality. Sure, it helps you think like a lawyer and teach you the basics of the law, it never helped with becoming a successful lawyer or how to draw a...more

Ary Rosenbaum - The Rosenbaum Law Firm P.C.

Managed Accounts have room to grow

Sponsors of 401(k) plans are increasingly recognizing the need to provide personalized investment options for their participants; however, access to managed accounts still remains limited....more

Ary Rosenbaum - The Rosenbaum Law Firm P.C.

You can’t sell Betamax in a VHS World

A plan provider once asked me if I had written a comprehensive article on why trustee-directed 401(k) plans are superior to participant-directed plans. Although I believe in this argument, I haven’t actually written such an...more

Pullman & Comley, LLC

It’s Not Spam: Why Your Retirement Plan Vendor May Be Trying to Get Your Attention (and Why You Should Respond)

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The Secure 2.0 Act of 2022 authorizes numerous new provisions that employers can choose to include or exclude in the retirement plans they sponsor. Recently, retirement plan vendors (vendors) have been sending communications...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

The New Fiduciary Rule (8): Special Issues—Robo Advice and Investment Education

The U.S. Department of Labor has released its package of proposed changes to the regulation defining fiduciary advice and to the exemptions for conflicts and compensation for investment advice to plans, participants...more

Carlton Fields

Expect Focus - Volume III, September 2023

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Regulators Hit Jackpot: Off-Channel Communications - Several years before announcing the first “off-channel” communications enforcement action, the SEC and FINRA cautioned broker-dealers and investment advisers about...more

Ary Rosenbaum - The Rosenbaum Law Firm P.C.

Don’t shrug

One of my pet peeves out there is when you give a list of complaints to a business or an organization and they give the proverbial “shrug of the shoulders.” The “proverbial shrug” is basically the business or the organization...more

Ary Rosenbaum - The Rosenbaum Law Firm P.C.

Hate ESG funds? Don’t offer them

The ESG rule issued by the Department of Labor (DOL) has incensed anyone who believes that the selection of retirement plan investments should be based solely on total return. It’s incensed 25 state attorney generals to sue...more

Ary Rosenbaum - The Rosenbaum Law Firm P.C.

One Digital Acquires Florida Pension Group

OneDigital announced the acquisition of Florida Pension Group. Based in St. Johns, Fla., Florida Pension Group (FPG)  provides retirement plan services to over 100 businesses and with more than $500 million assets under...more

Burr & Forman

2020 Appropriations Act Contains Significant Retirement Provisions (Secure Act)

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On December 20, 2019, President Trump signed the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 (the “Appropriations Act”) that includes the “Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 2019” (the “SECURE...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Monitoring ERISA Investment Fiduciaries

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Fiduciaries of employee benefit plans subject to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”) that appoint investment managers (“Appointing Fiduciaries”) will be interested in the opinion of the...more

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