Practice Management

The complexity of pension “hibernation” and other liability mitigation strategies gives financial advisers a great opportunity to showcase their skills and win promising client engagements.

Tax-qualified retirement plans run by small business owners must comply with ERISA—whether the sponsor is familiar with the landmark legislation or not.

More advisers will partner or find a way to leverage robo technology in their plan business, and the technology can be an efficient way to scale advice.

Advisers to retirement plan sponsors should regularly help their clients update communications strategies to keep up with participants’ needs and advancing technology.

Firms across the financial services spectrum are adapting to increased adviser teaming and the growing importance of partnership approaches to financial advice and institutional investment consulting.

An overwhelming majority of advisers (97%) believe conventional and robo-advisers can co-exist, a study says, but a strong majority (78%) still see the new tech as threatening.

They’re investors who may not know much about investing—or even how their company’s retirement plan works. What are some of the most unusual statements from participants?

Budgeting – it may be the first step to improved retirement savings.

Marketing leaders are excelling in their ability to plan effectively, instill their firm story and apply a disciplined referral process.

There is an enormous generational transfer of wealth on the horizon that will test retirement advisory firms’ ability to attract younger clients, a new J.D. Power report finds.

Advisers wondering how and what to Tweet, or where to find value in LinkedIn can usually turn to their companies, according to a LIMRA study.

Twenty-five percent of young women who responded to a recent Prudential survey felt they were “not in the right stage of life” to work with a professional financial...

A recent Cerulli Associates report assesses whether eRIAs, also known as robo-advisers, could be challenged in the medium and long terms by a “first-mover effect.”

A new LIMRA study finds many financial advisers prefer to do business with financial product wholesalers who work together as a team across internal and external distribution channels.

The deadline for some to start taking required minimum distributions (RMDs) is April 1, and the penalty for forgetting—a 50% tax bill—is big.

Financial advisers are not adequately preparing to deliver advanced digital capabilities to meet the expectations of younger generations of investors, according to Aite Group research.

Should advisers be more careful of the phrases they use with plan participants? Most agree that lofty statements, technical terms, and jargon should be avoided.

Retirement plan sponsors wanting to step up participant communications should make sure their providers are in tune with the latest trends.

Today, PLANADVISER is pleased to announce the finalists for the annual PLANSPONSOR Retirement Plan Adviser of the Year awards.

Lofty statements, technical terms, and jargon that’s incomprehensible to the average retirement plan participant can leave advisory clients feeling confused and frustrated.