Advisors can add value to their retirement plan support services by helping plan sponsors develop a strategy for satisfying their fiduciary duties under ERISA. Here's how to educate your plan sponsor clients about the importance of setting a schedule to complete fiduciary tasks, create a list of topics to address, and whom to invite to their meetings.
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Newport believes that investment managers should be selected and monitored using a well-defined process. Our dedicated team of research analysts combines quantitative analysis and qualitative research to help identify investment managers we believe will provide superior long-term results.
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Stable value strategies are investment options that primarily seek to preserve capital and whose return is based on a pre-determined crediting rate. We have developed this primer to expand the dialogue and provide new investment committee members with a strong foundation from which to select and monitor stable value strategies.
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Our Managed Account service—an optional online investment service for retirement plan participants—is an easy-to-use, online investment and savings service designed to help participants meet their retirement needs. It helps them set a retirement goal and puts a plan in place to help them reach it. Read all about it here.
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Target date funds provide unique challenges for evaluating and monitoring to meet the standards of ERISA. Learn about the extensive protocol designed by Newport Group.
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Common Questions from Plan Sponsors and Plan Committees
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Many employers rely on a financial professionals to help select and monitor investment options for the retirement plan they offer to their employees. But being an advisor allows you to offer more than investment expertise and benchmarking support. You can also provide valuable assistance to your plan sponsor clients by educating them about their fiduciary responsibilities.
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Newport Group has been developing a managed account service, called MAPS, that we plan to launch in 2019. Read on for an exclusive sneak peek at this exciting new product.
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Passive investment options continue to grow in popularity and now represent approximately 40% of total equity fund assets1. They are efficient at providing broad exposure to a number of asset classes at a low cost. Active investing provides the potential for higher returns, but at the risk of underperformance, particularly during extended bull markets. Active management benefits from risk oversight and may provide downside protection relative to market benchmarks. We expect the performance of active and passive managers to be complementary over a full market cycle. Retirement plan sponsors that offer a diversified menu of active and passive managers to participants may provide smoother long term returns, as well as gain exposures to asset classes that are otherwise unavailable passively.
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The objective of a participant-directed menu is to achieve the best
possible investment outcomes for plan participants, given their time
horizons and risk tolerance. As a consultant to both qualified and
non-qualified defined contribution plans, Newport Group’s fiduciary
consulting team has developed what we consider a “best-in-class”
menu design framework that can serve as a starting point for plan
sponsors.
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