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A 401(k) plan is one of the great employee benefits. Within a 401(k) Plan, some options are truly beneficial to plan participants when it comes to increasing retirement savings or allowing access for a participant’s benefit. The problem with these...By: Ary Rosenbaum

I write a ton of articles as you may know and I will have advisors contacting me and suggesting some topic titles. I have adapted some of these suggestions, but there is the one I had to turn down. I had an advisor who wanted me to write an article...By: Ary Rosenbaum

Long term businesses in the retirement plan business don’t die overnight. It takes a very long time as we see with Sears, the goodbye takes a long time. A dying business can change course, but the problem is that there essentially has to be a change...By: Ary Rosenbaum

Retirement plans with more than 100 participants require a CPA audit for their Form 5500. However, small plans with less than 100 participants may sometimes require an audit. This often happens when more than 5% of the Plan’s assets are invested in...By: Ary Rosenbaum

There are two major differences that I see in being an attorney when I worked for 9 years. for a third party administration (TPA) firm and the 9 years, I spent at my law firm....By: Ary Rosenbaum

About 20 or so years ago, there was a medical report that dental plaque could cause heart disease. The cynic in me tells me that this was some sort of dental conspiracy to increase revenue as fluoridated water and other dental hygiene has had to have...By: Ary Rosenbaum

When you go to kitchenware, you see so many different types of kitchen tools that you didn’t know existed. They sell pasta forks and cherry pitters and items you don’t need, but you have to have. When you’re a 401(k) plan sponsor, you hear a lot...By: Ary Rosenbaum

I always loved the movie Donnie Brasco, it’s a great story about the non-glamorous side of organized crime. As part of a crew captained by Sonny Black, Lefty Ruggiero played by Al Pacino is hammering away to get the change from a Brooklyn parking...By: Ary Rosenbaum

I’ve spent 21 years as an ERISA attorney and took some classes when I was getting my LLM and I learn something new about retirement plans every day. As a financial advisor, you likely didn’t have the training to be an ERISA expert, so there is so...By: Ary Rosenbaum

When I graduated from law school, it took a few months before I got my first job. So for the months, I wasn’t employed, I tried working with a temp agency to get temporary legal work. Let’s just say that no matter what they did, there was always a...By: Ary Rosenbaum