401k consolidation blog posts


Oct
05
2015

Let a Roll-In Increase Your Retirement Income

In his 10/2/15 MarketWatch article Let a Roll-in Increase Your Retirement Income, RCH President & CEO J. Spencer Williams advises retirement savers to bring their savings with them, vs. leaving their accounts behind -- or worse, cashing out.

Sep
29
2015

A Blueprint for Lifetime Participation in Plans

How many of us will be so fortunate as to participate in an employer-sponsored retirement plan every day of our working careers? Or, for an even more uncommon scenario, how many of us will work for the same company for 30 or 40 years? Yet, as has been amply established by the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI), those who can raise their hands and respond yes to either of these questions routinely show up in the top decile of savers who are well-prepared for retirement and these participants provide a clear blueprint for retirement-saving success.

Sep
15
2015

Think Twice Before Consolidating Your 401(k) Accounts on Your Own!

RCH's Spencer Pringle describes a traumatic event from his childhood and relates that experience to the (sometimes) difficult process of consolidating retirement savings on your own.

Aug
19
2015

What To Look For In A Roll-In Service Provider

Warren Cormier, CEO of Boston Research Technologies, recently published a research study that revealed that a large majority of plan participants are receptive to consolidating their retirement savings accounts in their current plans.

Aug
04
2015

What Participants' Distribution Decisions Are Telling Us

That's changing, as Neal Ringquist explains.

Jul
30
2015

Leaving Your 401(k) Savings Behind Will Cost You!

In his July 30th, 2015 MarketWatch article titled, Leaving Your 401K Behind When Changing Jobs Will Cost You, RCH's CEO Spencer Williams gives sage advice to America's mobile workforce, urging job-changing retirement savers to take the initiative and to consolidate their retirement savings.

Jul
27
2015

Consolidation: The Missing Piece of the Retirement Game Plan

Today, it's a commonly-accepted practice for plan sponsors to focus on three major initiatives in order to promote retirement adequacy: participation, saving and diversification. While these concepts are proven, the emerging best practice is to incorporate the principle of consolidation, so that plan sponsors will begin to focus on participation, consolidation, saving and diversification.

Jul
17
2015

Safe Harbor IRAs Are Not Always Safe

Plan sponsors can help themselves and their participants over the long term by rolling balances of $5,000 or less from inactive participants into safe harbor IRAs. However, for various reasons discussed below, many safe harbor IRAs do not live up to their name and could leave sponsors with unexpected fiduciary liability.

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