But good habits alone aren’t enough. As cyber threats evolve, fiduciaries must look ahead—promoting cutting-edge tools that can outpace tomorrow’s attackers.
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2024 was a year of adaptation for retirement plan fiduciaries who navigated through regulatory changes, legal landscapes, and participant needs with a renewed focus on governance, liability management, and the holistic management of retirement plans.
Not only do you need to watch the place that holds all the money, you need to watch the pipeline that feeds the money there.
There is an out, of course, but that might eliminate the so-called “institutional pricing” advantage former employees have for staying in the plan in the first place.
There’s a perverse incentive working here, however. The more aggressive a plan sponsor gets in terms of promoting “financial wellness,” the more likely that plan sponsor will accidentally cross some compliance line.
Despite this, 401k plan sponsors can better protect their employees, even when it comes to personal data, because that data is only acquired within the context of the service provider’s relationship to the plan.
Aside from pep talks and infusing it into their corporate culture, don’t forget that much of what is needed can be built right into the plan.
It’s fun to talk about “risk” and “return” because these are measurables and people are comfortable with the tangible world. But none of that touches upon what really matters. Worse, it can distract you from achieving what you want most.
MEPs, Fees, and Leveling the ETF playing field.
5 Underreported 401k Stories From The Summer Of 2025
Not all impactful changes come from courtrooms or market forecasts. Sometimes the quietest adjustments happen in the administrative framework of retirement plans. This summer, two such moves stood out as underreported 401k stories that carry both promise and peril for fiduciaries.