Retireholics

"Excited to talk about 401(k) litigation and the plaintiff attorney's place in the retirement plan ecosystem with the Retireholics crew this Thursday!"

Odell Beckham Jr. bitcoin play, was it dumb or just another investment and no big deal? The U.S. Supreme Court on Hughes v. Northwestern for excessive fee case and what it means.

Do 401k Unicorns exist? Human Interest has raised over 335 million in funding and has it eyes set on an IPO in the near future. The Retireholics welcome Eric Phillips, CFA the Sr. Director, Partnerships & Strategic Insight for Human Interest.

Transamerica Lawsuit, Better Plan Designs, Why Many Fiduciaries are Blowing It, TPA Advisor Relations,  and more.

 

Guest: Keith Gredys

Chairman/CEO The Kidder Company/Fuerza Financial, Inc.

After a late night of karaoke, the boys all get together at the crack of noon and talk to our buddy Will Hackler.

Laura (Clark) Rogers, MBA, AIF is the Director of Financial Elements at OneDigital.

Friend of the Retireholics and salsa maker Daniella Moiseyev stopped by the couch during the Wealth@Work 2021 Advisor Conference in Nashville.

Wealth advisor Chris Panagiotu talking about financial planning as a core strategy while fighting the tunnel vision of people being focused on investing.

https://open.spotify.com/show/2eaXdmgmuEygxHfCvS6kij

*We were slow to release this one, because the Giants lost and we needed time to heal.

Advisor Erin Hall joins as we discuss how to protect against 401k cyber attacks and debate transparent billable fees versus hidden asset based ones. 

Read Erin's whitepaper here:

https://www.srpretire.com/Cybersecurity_White_Paper.pdf

Fred Reish and Nevin Adams talk to us a bit about their podcast (which is great by the way). We also discuss the breaking news in the 401k retirement plan space.

• Federal mandate on retirement plans might be coming with 'Build Back Better', what it means for advisors and who will benefit most.
• Brett tells a very long story about how somebody gave him beer in an RV.
• Solving your customers needs when it requires the plan sponsors to participate.

 

Special Edition of Retireholics  on what’s going down at the 2021 Wealth@work Conference in Nashville. A pre-conference episode with special guest Ross Marino of Advisor 2X.

We'll be there! 

https://wealthatwork.live/
OCTOBER 24-26, 2021

NASHVILLE

Are 401ks only for the privileged? The boys are joined by Bill Schories of Invesco to discuss if 401ks suck, mutual fund scoring, leveraging DCIO partners, and the Nirvana baby.

He's written many leather bound books, and smells of rich mahogany.

Shannon & Amanda take over Retireholics, like always it's a train-wreck. You are fortunate to be listening to the Podcast version, as the video of this is a seizure inducing CF.

As all the new tools and tech fail to make the big difference in participant outcomes that we hoped for. Is boring old financial education is where we should be returning our focus?

Financial Advisor Sean Patton joins the show to discuss aggregators, the convergence of health, wealth and retirement, and strategies around being an HR consultant.

Matthew Jackson the author of The Retirement Dreammaker, he loves retirement, loves Jiu Jitsu and most importantly he loves himself a shhmmmedium t-shirt.

We finally get to chop it up with Carrie Ohm. Her role at One Digital gives her a unique vantage point on advisors, retirement plans and the industry as a whole. This was a fun episode, even with Chad's ramblings.

What is a "custodian" for a retirement plan?  Now that the DOL is now auditing the cybersecurity of plans and want information involving cybersecurity from vendors and plan fiduciaries, are we safe from hackers? Jania Stout drops in to thank everybody for all their donations to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. We play JD's "one of these things doesn't belong" game, which is absolutely pointless for a podcast listener.

We discuss SECURE 2.0, Biden Retirement Plan Tax Proposals, Washington & Lobbyists, and of course Bourbon.

We talk about a lot of breaking retirement news, but also take a break to talk about the transformative effects of meditation and how impactful this can be for all us stressed out financial industry folks.

The Child IRA, why and how you should be helping kids get IRA's and start putting money into it (hint: compound interest).

Gamification in 401k, how it works, who is doing it, should we be doing it?

We also talk about Hamburger Dreams, the book Chris wrote about lore surrounding the invention of the hamburger, and where he thinks the evidence leads.

Is the volatility of crypto currently too wild to even be considered for 401k, or is their adoption into plans a forgone conclusion and it's just a matter of when.  The boys have the "rothification" of the match conversation, and it goes about as good as it's going for anybody else.

SECURE 2.0, the current state of TDFs? Advisors and Fund Review Best Practices

The concept of teaching training for Plan Sponsors AKA- Fiduciary Essentials for Defined Contribution Plans.

Nevin Adams article about Congress and TDFs.  https://www.napa-net.org/news-info/daily-news/are-target-date-funds-target

Rick asked the longest Quiz of Death question ever and nobody could agree on the right answer, but we still zaped Chad with our new large breed shock collar.

 

Wow, Katie Boyer managed to get through the whole show with only #4 ACROSYN fails. That's pretty damn impressive. Oh wait, I'm suppose to try and type 401k TPA like keywords in here for SEO, not just say what's important... which is Katie Boyer is friggen LEGEND!

Michael Kitces is an American financial planner, commentator, speaker, blogger, and educator. He frequently contributes to industry publications, publishes a blog and newsletter for advisors, is the former practitioner editor of the Journal of Financial Planning, the co-founder of the XY Planning Network (#168 on the Inc. 5000 list in 2018) and AdvicePay, and is a partner of Pinnacle Advisory Group, a financial advisory firm. He has also been featured in Investopedia's top 10 "most influential" advisors list.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Kitces

 

 

Marketing creative expert, who has been serving the financial industry for that last 25+ years, talks about how advisors need to actually put some effort into their virtual meeting approaches.

Chief Revenue Officer at Advisor2X Lisa Allen talked to us about giving back and "getting proximate" during their conferences and working with kids in the local community on financial literacy and exposing them to the financial services industry.

One of the hardest working financial advisors you'll ever meet. She shares with us her mindset that helps her kill it in the 401k space.

We love this guy, he's litigating ERISA Attorney that speaks straight and cuts to the heart of confusing issues. If it was up to us, this show would have been 5 hours (and if his kid wasn't pulling on his sleeve).

One our of favorite guest, an absolute legend in the TPA world, the man with all the answers, SAL (fricken) TRIPODI.

You'd think somebody so smart could avoid saying the Prohibited Word 50 times, but I guess not.

Matthew Wolniewicz, President of Fi360 took a break from watching the draft, and talked to the Retireholiks about what advisors did for their clients during the pandemic is going to be Publish now a great talking point to a prospect in a post pandemic point of sale.

#10 Samantha Russell walks us through actions financial advisors should be taking during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The top 3 are super critical.

1. Check all outgoing scheduled communications for anything tone def to Covid-19
2. Update contact info on website, if how people reach you has changed during this time.
3. Check 'Google My Business' and make sure it's the information you want people to see for your business.

Bill Harmon of Voya Financial on what they are seeing with CRD's (Coronavirus-Related Distribution), and why they took the step to waive their fees on CRD processing.

Voya had a fast transition to working at home, is the Coronavirus going to change how they or other recordkeepers do business in the future?

John Sullivan - Editor-in-Chief of 401kSpecialist Magazine came down from his crystal tower to hang out in the gutter. We talk Trump vs Biden for the health of 401k, and JD tells John how to run his business.

One of our favorite guest, Alex Assaley popped in, to let us know what he was doing to service his clients during this tumultuous time in our lives.

401k Fridays podcast (go subscribe right now) host Rick Unser zoomed in with the Retireholiks to discuss a variety of topics.

Nevin Adams joined us to discuss some of the latest emergency details of the CARES Act, and the provisions the ARA wants plan sponsors and participants to know about.

As we're all on lock down because of the Coronavirus, we had Jania Stout (The 4 billion dollar woman) come on a Zoom meeting and discuss some of what's going on.

401k industry legend Sal Tripodi came on the show to close out the 20th Annual Hawaiian ERISA Update seminar. We talk Secure Act expansion of Safe Harbor rules. What can be done to get the younger generation to save more, how bigger fund menus might be a mistake, and what TPA's should ready themselves for introduction of Open MEP (Multi Employer Plan).

Thank you to PensionPro, Millennium Trust, Penchecks, Spectrum Pension Consultants, Inc. for having us out!