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Here are a few things to consider in working with your clients and their concerns about part-time employees, including those who work for a client part-time but regularly, and those who work for a client full-time but only seasonally.

Cybersecurity is the biggest technology anxiety among those regulating financial advisors this year. So what counts as a cyberattack? and what do analysts suggest that smaller companies do?

Are your plan participants betting that they’ll live a long time? Do their retirement savings and goals match that enthusiasm?

Women are falling behind in retirement savings compared to their male colleagues. How advisors can help them bridge the gap

EBSA recently published new Prohibited Transaction Exemptions (“PTE”s) that include, among other things, amendments concerning annuities. The new amendments change how advisors can earn commissions and impose other requirements

A Pew Research Center study shows that slightly more than one in every eight Americans between the ages of 40 and 60 are caring for a parent and raising a child simultaneously

In the last decade, income grew by 26% yet expenses have grown 37% or more. And the average household is paying almost $7000 in interest per year: that’s almost 10% of the average household’s income going straight to debt

By building the goal into the savings plan, you can create a savings mindset in your participants, one that may extend well beyond the original goals.

30 million workers (or one in four) suffer serious financial distress that impacts their employers.

FINRA and the SEC may be moving the line on how they investigate ethical behavior by looking to corporate culture. What areas can you assess now in your practice to make sure you can comply with this broadening scope? 

Confused by the multiple actors working on Fidicuary Rules? Don't be. Here's a summary of what States, the DOL and the SEC are doing. 

Launched in 2008, robo-advisors provide portfolio management. But is that enough for retirement plan participants?

It’s going to take more than the annual benefits meeting to convince cash-strapped millennials to start saving for a future long in coming.

Financial scams date back to the Roman Empire, and now impact nearly every consumer, with recent surveys finding 8 in 10 consumers have received communications about financially fraud.

While green investing in the 1990s wasn’t always a financially profitable endeavor, sustainable investing seems like it may have hit the mark. Now “profits with a purpose” may actually include profits.

Changes to the regulatory environment top the list of many commentators as a key trend to watch. Which other trends in the market affect Plan Advisors the most?

A shift in thinking could be all that’s needed to leverage a company’s retirement plan into an attractive option for candidates.

After the globalization wave of the early 2000s, what exactly does an “international investment” look like?

How much would your participant miss a one-percent payroll deduction if he is receiving a three-percent raise every year?

The success of both a retirement plan and your participants’ retirement outcomes often miss that crucial piece that can help solidify results: education.

Many older employees are opting to work beyond traditional retirement age. How a financial wellness program can ensure that they’re choosing to do so for the right reasons.

Even the most dedicated financial advisor with the flexibility of a yoga teacher can run into a dispute or misunderstanding with a client. Can mediation or arbitration help resolve things early?

Training new board members can be done with an eye towards the future: Reflecting on what you’d like the board chair to know now could determine the areas where a new board member could be trained.

Having a retirement strategy and having the right retirement strategy is the difference between your participants assuming they have enough to knowing they do.

Meeting your client's employee's needs for a data-driven customer experience is a two way street: deliver individualized information and in a systematic way that can be collected and analyzed. How?