The final votes are in on the voting tool we’re using to help choose workshop sessions at the 2015 NAPA 401(k) SUMMIT. The final top 10 topics are: 1. Methods to better evaluate, select and monitor TDFs  2. Allocation of revenue sharing and plan costs 3. Rollovers: how regulators affect your... READ MORE

Detroit may well be the poster child for municipal pension irresponsibility (though if there were an award for that, it would be extremely competitive). But give credit where it’s due: the Motor City has also been a model for how to dig out of the public pension hole. Kevyn Orr, the city’s... READ MORE

On July 22, NAPA’s Executive Director/CEO Brian Graff and Director of Government Affairs Ronald J. Triche will discuss the latest actions being taken by regulators at SEC, FINRA and the DOL and how they will affect your business.   The discussion, which is part of NAPA’s “Washington Update” webcast... READ MORE

Many plan sponsors continue to maintain 80% or more of their equity allocation in domestic stocks, despite the fact that U.S. companies now account for only about half of the total global market capitalization and a far lower percentage of revenue. In a new white paper from Portfolio Evaluations,... READ MORE

Are graft and fraud the next big thing for state pension plans? An industry segment already beset by massive underfunding, bankruptcy court proceedings and other litigation, politics and pension envy doesn’t need any more bad news. But that may be exactly what it gets.  The former chief executive... READ MORE

As savvy plan fiduciaries and advisors know, the best way to survive a plan audit is to avoid it in the first place. Once an audit is triggered, however, only the most carefully governed plans can expect a clean bill of health, Bruce Ashton, an attorney with Drinker Biddle & Reath, notes in a... READ MORE

The confluence of two forces is just beginning to the reshape how Americans view their retirement years. First, people are living longer, healthier lives. “This means many people have at least 15-20 years after they retire,” Nancy Collamer, the founder of MyLifestyleCareer.com and author of the... READ MORE

Opposition to the Department of Labor’s pending fiduciary definition rule among advisors continues to hold strong at 90 percent, according to a Financial Services Institute poll released July 9. The poll of 2,300 independent financial advisors also focused on the upcoming midterm elections and... READ MORE

Stephen Rosenberg of The McCormack Firm, LLC in Boston offers a concise summary of the meaning of the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent Fifth Third Bancorp v. Dudenhoeffer case. Rosenberg’s blog post features a roundup (with links) of the best online analyses of the meaning and impact of the decision,... READ MORE