Cash Balance Plans: Best Practices and Key Considerations for Retirement Advisors
Joe Nichols is a Partner and the Director of Actuarial Services at DWC-The 401(k) Experts. He is also the President of the American Retirement Association, one of the nation’s premier nonproft retirement organizations. At DWC, Joe is responsible for streamlining defned beneft plan processes, ensuring the accuracy of his frm’s actuarial work, and facilitating effective communication between his clients and other interested parties. In his 30+ years of experience in the industry, Joe has worked with both national and regional actuarial frms. He has also helped design and implement hundreds of new cash balance plans over the last decade.
Cash balance plans, which blend features of both defined benefit and defined contribution plans, are the fastest-growing sector in the US retirement plan marketplace.1 Since 2001 the number of cash balance plans has climbed 17-fold, and assets in such plans now exceed $1 trillion. Given these encouraging trends, should advisors looking to build a robust and diverse service offering explore a cash balance plan component for their practice?
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