PLANADVISER - May/June 2019 - 20
cover story
Firms confront
a convergence
of retirement
plan and wealth
consulting
ASKED about the retirement plan advisory industry of the future, some
executives and analysts point to the foundational change that could come
along with broad adoption of open multiple employer plans (MEPs), while
others cite the potentially huge shake-up a tech giant such as Amazon or
Google could cause in the robotic advisory realm. But those are long-term
prospects and hypotheses.
Still others emphasize a change already happening-a blurring of the
line between private wealth managers and retirement plan advisers, and
the growing importance of partnerships, cross-selling and scalability amid a
consolidating-provider landscape.
However these or other changes play out, sources agree that advisers must
evolve their solutions and services now to keep pace with client, and competitive,
demands.
Holistic, Not Conflicted
Retirement plan advisers with any significant experience will have run into
the fundamental question of how to structure a practice that can effectively
serve both private wealth management clients and institutional retirement
plan clients.
Not all advisers choose to work on both sides of the business, of course, and
the firms that would rather specialize give a variety of reasons for why. These
reasons have changed, over time-most recently with the defeat of the Department
of Labor (DOL) fiduciary rule reforms, plus the Securities and Exchange
Commission (SEC)'s ongoing work on its own conflict of interest regulations-
but many retirement plan specialists say they will maintain their current fiduciary
focus on serving plan sponsors and participants, even if the regulatory
environment is easing under the Trump administration.
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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of PLANADVISER - May/June 2019
Advisers' Future Trajectory
Tangled
2019 PLANADVISER DCIO Survey
High-Tech Meets High-Touch
Whatever Suits
New Platforms Support ETFs
Major Cases
Good News for P.R. Plans
Denial of Benefits
The Cost of Advising One's Own Plan
PLANADVISER - May/June 2019 - C1
PLANADVISER - May/June 2019 - FC1
PLANADVISER - May/June 2019 - FC2
PLANADVISER - May/June 2019 - C2
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PLANADVISER - May/June 2019 - Advisers' Future Trajectory
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PLANADVISER - May/June 2019 - Tangled
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PLANADVISER - May/June 2019 - 2019 PLANADVISER DCIO Survey
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PLANADVISER - May/June 2019 - High-Tech Meets High-Touch
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PLANADVISER - May/June 2019 - Whatever Suits
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PLANADVISER - May/June 2019 - New Platforms Support ETFs
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PLANADVISER - May/June 2019 - Major Cases
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PLANADVISER - May/June 2019 - Good News for P.R. Plans
PLANADVISER - May/June 2019 - Denial of Benefits
PLANADVISER - May/June 2019 - The Cost of Advising One's Own Plan
PLANADVISER - May/June 2019 - C3
PLANADVISER - May/June 2019 - C4
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