24 episodes
The Excellent Fiduciary Podcast Roland|Criss
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Insights into the practices required to satisfy the moral and legal requirements for executives and managers who are assigned to oversee the retirement and benefit plan assets of their enterprise's employees.
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Fresh Perspectives on Fiduciary Controls
Traditional internal control methods for retirement, pension, and health and welfare plans are insufficient in the present business climate. Regulatory, legal, and cyber security events confirm it. Chief financial officers, human resources executives, and other senior business unit leaders comprise the class of individuals who manage employee benefit plans. This podcast discusses why many of their management practices have become outdated and what needs to do to make them current.
Prudent Performance drives employee benefit plan management excellence.
Leading employee benefit plan managers strive for Prudent Performance, described as consistently attaining goals while dealing with uncertainty in complying with the prudence rule. Learn what defines Prudent Performance and how it transforms fiduciary outcomes.
About our host
Ronald E. Hagan is chairman of Roland|Criss’ Risk Standards Committee. Ron has over 25 years of experience helping clients examine and improve their risk management practices for employee benefit plans qualified under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. He is the engaging host of Roland|Criss’ weekly podcast and quarterly webinar series.
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Evaluating Fiduciary Committee Performance
Independent, thorough fiduciary committee assessments are becoming more crucial. Demands on committees are higher than ever as expectations for better retirement outcomes continue to grow. Committee evaluations can pinpoint areas that require improvement and enable members to assess their plan’s preparedness to satisfy participants and regulators.
Committee evaluations can pinpoint areas that require improvement…
Before starting an assessment, learn the four goals it should meet and the nine issues it should cover.
About our host
Ronald E. Hagan is chairman of Roland|Criss’ Risk Standards Committee. Ron has over 25 years of experience helping clients examine and improve their risk management practices for employee benefit plans qualified under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. He is the engaging host of Roland|Criss’ weekly podcast and quarterly webinar series.
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Are Cybersecurity Warnings Being Heard?
Most employee benefit plan committees operate outside the scope and purview of their employers’ cybersecurity leader. Traditional culture improvement efforts focusing exclusively on awareness are not causing a change in priorities among committees. That begs the question, is the human resources community paying attention to the warnings about the devastating effects of lax data security on employee benefit plans?
Traditional culture improvement efforts focusing exclusively on awareness are not causing a change in priorities among committees.
This podcast presents four steps HR executives can follow to change the order of their employee benefit plan committees’ cybersecurity priorities.
About our host
Ronald E. Hagan is chairman of Roland|Criss’ Risk Standards Committee. Ron has over 25 years of experience helping clients examine and improve their risk management practices for employee benefit plans qualified under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. He is the engaging host of Roland|Criss’ weekly podcast and quarterly webinar series.
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Don't Hold on to the Money!
The mistakes employers make in the administration of 401(k) and 403(b) plans are widespread and involve predictable errors. The first and most common error is employers’ failure to remit employee deferrals for deposits to employees’ retirement plan accounts on a timely basis. It should be no surprise then that deficiency is one of the most aggressive enforcement areas by the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Department of Labor.
The first and most common error is employers’ failure to remit employee deferrals for deposits to employees’ retirement plan accounts on a timely basis.
Learn the three steps your plan management program can include to avoid this mistake.
About our host
Ronald E. Hagan is chairman of Roland|Criss’ Risk Standards Committee. Ron has over 25 years of experience helping clients examine and improve their risk management practices for employee benefit plans qualified under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. He is the engaging host of Roland|Criss’ weekly podcast and quarterly webinar series.
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New RFP Best Practices
According to Fidelity Investments, nearly one-half of the more than 1,200 retirement plans it surveyed may have new recordkeepers soon. Fidelity reported that the lead executives who manage those plans intend to commission a request for proposal (“RFP”) project to search the market for a potentially new recordkeeping vendor. New issues confront employee benefit plan committees that modify the traditional content of retirement plan RFPs.
According to Fidelity Investments, nearly one-half of the more than 1,200 retirement plans it surveyed may have new recordkeepers soon.
Two significant developments force modernization of RFP best practices for recordkeeping vendor searches. Hear them explained in this podcast.
About our host
Ronald E. Hagan is chairman of Roland|Criss’ Risk Standards Committee. Ron has over 25 years of experience helping clients examine and improve their risk management practices for employee benefit plans qualified under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. He is the engaging host of Roland|Criss’ weekly podcast and quarterly webinar series.
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Human Resources Leaders as Investment Fiduciaries
Many human resources executives find themselves assigned to a committee that manages the investments in employee benefit plans like 401(k), 403(b), and company-funded pension plans. Seldom do HR leaders possess the academic background or experience of an investment professional, but that’s what fiduciary laws require. This podcast is intended to clarify the key issues that federal law and the courts expect plan fiduciaries to address and resolve with prudence.
Seldom do HR leaders possess the academic background or experience of an investment professional, but that’s what fiduciary laws require.
Human resources leaders who may feel out of their comfort zone when meeting with their investment-related employee benefit plan committee colleagues will gain confidence from the insights and tips offered in this episode.
About our host
Ronald E. Hagan is chairman of Roland|Criss’ Risk Standards Committee. Ron has over 25 years of experience helping clients examine and improve their risk management practices for employee benefit plans qualified under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. He is the engaging host of Roland|Criss’ weekly podcast and quarterly webinar series.