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Defined Contribution Recordkeeper Consolidation Continues
Empower recently announced an agreement to acquire MassMutual’s retirement plan recordkeeping business. The acquisition is expected to capitalize on both firms’ experience and expertise to the benefit of retirement plan participants and plan sponsors. Plans currently utilizing MassMutual are being notified of this action and should expect no changes or disruption to current operations during  Read More →
Plan Documents… Save or Purge?
Many ERISA plan sponsors are unclear regarding a primary fiduciary responsibility concerning plan document retention (which and when documents may be purged). Most plan sponsors adopt an assumed “reasonable” amount of time to retain documents prior to purging them. Unfortunately, IRS rules may not always be complicit with what may be assumed to be “reasonable”.  Read More →
To Roth or Not to Roth
Many 401(k) and 403(b) retirement plan participants are uncertain as to the benefits of saving their contributions on a Traditional (pre-tax) or Roth (after-tax) basis. As a reminder, although you get a current year tax deduction for pre-tax contributions, the principal and growth will be taxable in retirement.  In contrast, Roth contributions are made with  Read More →

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