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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

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TRICK-or-TREAT? DOL Proposes Spooky New “Retirement Security Rule” That Would Expand the Scope of Fiduciary “Investment Advice”

Responding to the “terrifying” reality that conflicted investment advice is costing retirement savers billions of dollars each year, on October 31, 2023, the Department of Labor (“DOL”) issued proposed rules representing its...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

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New York District Court Rejects ERISA Excessive Fee Claims as Insufficient

A district court in New York recently dismissed a putative class action challenging retirement plan recordkeeping and investment management fees. The case is Singh v. Deloitte LLP, No. 21-cv-8458, 2023 WL 186679 (S.D.N.Y....more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

SECURE Act and Guaranteed Income (Part 2)

The introduction to my last post, SECURE Act Part 1, explained: There are two parts of the SECURE Act that I believe will have the greatest impact on my clients: plan sponsors and plan service providers. The first includes...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

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