The Retirement Plan Blog

Pardon the pun, but more employers are indeed achieving cost and operating efficiencies when the payroll system and 401(k) administration can directly talk to each other. In the unconnected world...

https://www.retirementplanblog.com/401k-plans/the-new-retirement-plan-currency-interfacing-the-payroll-system-with-401k-administration/

Unlike the money belt pictured above, the dollars charged for 401(k) services will start to become more apparent under the recently published Department of Labor Interim Final Regulation on Impro...

https://www.retirementplanblog.com/401k-plans/401k-fees-not-just-the-who-and-how-much-but-the-what/

 No, that’s not my high school graduation picture. It’s a Microsoft staff photo from December 7, 1978 from the StateMaster website. Yes, that’s Bill Gates on the bottom row left, and co-fo...

https://www.retirementplanblog.com/401k-plans/401k-plans-then-and-now/

That’s the poster from the not so good 1979 movie, The Shape of Things To Come. You kinda get the picture from the tagline Beyond the earth… Beyond the moon… Beyond your wildest imagination...

https://www.retirementplanblog.com/401k-plans/the-shape-of-things-to-come-for-401k-plans-in-2010/

    It’s that season of the year. No, not the obvious holiday season, but the award show season. And I’ve got my own called, The Retirement Plan Year in Review: The Good, The Bad, and The ...

https://www.retirementplanblog.com/401k-plans/the-2009-retirement-plan-in-review-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/

That’s Chicago’s own Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson pictured in a scene from Lost In Translation, the 2003 movie in which they co-starred. I’ll skip the movie review and just describe i...

https://www.retirementplanblog.com/401k-plans/lost-in-translation-401k-investment-education-programs/

That’s Les Stroud pictured above whose TV show, Survivorman, is one of my favorites. One of my other favorites is Bear Gyylls show, Man Versus Wild.    Both are survival experts who go t...

https://www.retirementplanblog.com/401k-plans/the-practical-side-of-being-a-fiduciary/

It’s already the middle of July, and for many retirement plan sponsors Form 5500 will be due by the end of this month unless extended. And if you’re a plan sponsor whose 5500 must include an...

https://www.retirementplanblog.com/401k-plans/its-erisa-plan-audit-time-again/

Here is a link to my column in the May issue of Employee Benefit news about how automatic enrollment in 401(k) plans boosts 401(k) participation. (Free registration may be required). This is the ...

https://www.retirementplanblog.com/401k-plans/automatic-401k-enrollment-update/