ACG Blog

What’s the Big Change with 401(k) Hardships?

Investor Insights - December 2018

What You Might Have Missed - October & November 2018

A Few Nuggets of Wisdom on Pot Stocks

Can You Have a Maximum DB Plan Without Much Current Compensation? Yes, SIR!

Qualified Plan, IRA and Social Security Limits Announced for 2019

Investor Insights - November 2018

Which Is It? Pay Less Taxes, Spend More Time with the Love of Your Life or Both?

Participant Loans: Are They Right for Your Plan?

Investor Insights - October 2018

What You Might Have Missed - August & September 2018

Is Your Employer Cheating You on Your Pension Lump Sum?

Want to Save for Education Expenses? Open up a 529 Plan Account.

Investor Insights - September 2018

Longest Bull Market: How Long Can It Go?

Make Defined Benefit Plan Contributions By September 15, 2018 Even Though It’s a Saturday

What You Need to Know About the 2- and 10-year Spread

Investor Insights - August 2018

Vesting Rules Determine How Much of Your Retirement Account You Own

Three Easy Steps to Reducing Your Financial Anxiety in Retirement

Investor Insights - July 2018

What You Might Have Missed This Month - June 2018

Deductible Limits for Defined Benefit and Combo Plans

Deductible Employer Contribution Limits in 401(k)s and Other Defined Contribution Plans

Shouldn't the Discussion About Fiduciary Obligation Include the Quality of Services and Performance ... and Not Solely Be About Fees

Investor Insights - June 2018

What the Heck is a TPA ... and Why Do You Need One?

Get a Fidelity Bond to Insure against Fraud and Dishonesty – and Because It’s the Law

Investor Insights - May 2018

Advice for How to Get Your Financial House in Order

How Donors Can Leverage the IRA Qualified Charitable Distribution for Smart Financial Giving and Harness the Impact of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act

Avoid the ADP Test with a Safe Harbor 401(k) Plan

How to Avoid 401(k) Administration Mistakes

Investor Insights - April 2018

Simple Investment Lesson Worth Repeating

Money Conversations to Have With Your Children

The Good, The Bad and Maybe The Unknown About Target Date Funds

If You Defer Too Much in a 401(k), Your Money Will Be Cheerfully Refunded

Investor Insights - March 2018

How Can I Determine My Risk Tolerance?

Like It or Not, Here Are the ABCs of ADP Testing

How to Get Financially Fit in 2018

Investor Insights - February 2018

Compensation: What's in a Name?

Best New Year's Resolution for Retirement Savings

Investor Insights: January 2018

Investment Considerations for Cash Balance Plans

The Myth of the Rule of Parity, or, Why Rehires Must Immediately Re-Enter the 401(k) Plan

What You Need to Know About Investing in Bitcoin

Investor Insights: December 2017

What You Need to Understand About Risk Tolerance and Time Horizon

Charging Fees to Terminated Plan Participants Okay in Some Cases

Why a Strategic Asset Allocation is Important

Top-Paid Group Election for HCEs May Help Plan Compliance Testing

IRS, PBGC, SSA Release 2018 Cost-of-Living Increases

The Potential Impact of Sequence of Returns Risk

Investor Insights: October 2017

What You Need to Know Before Adopting a 401(k) Plan

Three Quick Tips to Make Your Wealth Last in Retirement

Investor Insights: September 2017

Rising Interest Rates Not Always Bad For Stock Prices

ACG's Best Investment Strategies for Dentists

Investor Insights: August 2017

Baby Boomer Close to Retirement? Here’s How to Prepare.

5 Reasons Why You Need to Revisit Your 401(k) Plan Design

The 411 on Investment Fees: Why Cheaper Doesn’t Mean Better

Investor Insights: July 2017

Top-Heavy Retirement Plan: A Weighty Subject to Tackle

Exit Strategies Worth Considering When Selling a Dental Practice

Shocking Baby Boomer Retirement Statistics That Keep Us Up at Night

Secrets from Financially Successful Dentists

Investor Insights: June 2017

Calculating Sole Proprietor Earned Income Will Leave You in Circles

5 Ways Investors Sabotage Their Own Portfolios

Are Leveraged ETFs Right for You?

Measuring Service in Pensions: Something They Didn’t Teach in Nursery School

Tips for Virginia Dental Practice Owners to Save More in Taxes Through 401(k) Plan Design

4 Essential Money Conversations to Have with Your Aging Parents

Investor Insights: May 2017

What is Goal-Based Investing?

Retirement Plan Compensation in an S Corp: What Counts, What Doesn’t

6 Things Nobody Told You About Trading ETFs

Investor Insights: April 2017

Six Tough Questions to Ask a Potential Financial Advisor

Tips for Helping Manage Your Elderly Parents' Finances

Tax-Loss Harvesting: How You May Benefit from Investment Losses

Brrrr...Thoughts About Frozen Defined Benefit Plans

5 Steps for Dealing with Market Volatility

Investor Insights: March 2017

Marriage Investment Planning When One Spouse is Risk Averse

Is There Still a Place for Active Investment Management?

Is Active or Passive Investing Right for You?

A Deeper Look at Cross-Testing

EBARs: The First Step in Cross-Testing

Going Beyond the Risk Tolerance Questionnaire

Investor Insights: February 2017

How Should Your Investment Accounts Be Titled?

For Big Tax-Deductible Contributions, Consider a Defined Benefit Plan

Why You Should Analyze Risk-Adjusted Returns — Not Just Absolute Returns

Registered Investment Advisor vs. Big Bank: Which Should You Choose?

How Mortality Tables Work

5 Successful 401(k) Retirement Plan Strategies

Asset Allocation Strategies for Retirement Planning

Chasing Performance When Choosing Mutual Funds Can Be A Big Mistake

4 Strategies For Avoiding the Trap of Emotional Investing

Conservative Investors Should Stay the Course

11 Things You May or May Not Know About Family Attribution

401(k) Plan Fees and Expenses: What Plan Sponsors Should Know

How to Increase Retirement Plan Participation and 401(k) Enrollment

How Changes in Retirement Lead to a Retirement Income Gap

Controlled Group Rules Require Multiple Businesses to Be Treated as One

2017 Qualified Plan Limits Announced

7 Questions Plan Sponsors Must Ask Potential Retirement Plan Advisors

Understanding 401(k) Contribution Limits

Deciding When to Start Collecting Social Security

Social Security Benefits to Get a (Very) Slight Bump in 2017

Is Your Business Following These 401(k) Best Practices in Plan Design?

401(k) Fiduciary Responsibility: What You Need to Know

Could Your Company Benefit From a Cross-Tested Retirement Plan?

Decisions, Decisions ... A Comparison of Small Business Retirement Plans

Can You Be Past Age 70½ and Not Take 401(k) Distributions?

10 Tips for Plan Sponsors to get 401(k) Plan Ready for Year-End

Will the Upcoming Elections Impact Your Portfolio?

The Nonresident Aliens Have Landed

Complete Form 8955-SSA Correctly So Future Generations Won’t Hate You

Talk to Your Doctor…Er…TPA Firm about Cross-Testing

The Brangover – Brexit and its impact on the markets and your portfolio

Ten Guidelines for 401(k) Loans

What Does Retirement Plan Disqualification Mean?

Four Great Things the IRS Has Done for Us Recently

The Conflict of Interest Rule: Fiduciary Standard Impact on Investors

Use Caution When Putting Real Estate in Your Retirement Plan

Fiduciary duty - does your financial advisor work in your best interest?

Read Form 5500 EZ Instructions & Work with Competent Advisors

401(k) plan request for proposal (RFP) process

European Central Bank introduces negative interest rates

Treasury Department Releases Scary Proposed Regulations on Cross-Testing

Simplicity of a SEP Comes With a Price

Protect Your Retirement Savings: How to Verify Your Financial Advisor can be Trusted

A Gray Day: Goodbye to an Old Friend

Recordkeeper & TPA…Just Like Peas & Carrots

What SUP with the 2015 Form 5500?

Not so happy new year for the stock market

The COLA Is Flat in 2016; IRS Limits Explained

PBGC Premiums to Rise Again; The Reason Will Make You Cry

The End of an Era: New Budget Deal is Poised to End the File and Suspend Strategy

"Highly Compensated Employee" Defined

Janet Yellen, the Fed’s rate decision, and investing with uncertainty

Top Tax Issues for 2016

Don't Be in Stocks If You Need the Money Soon

Investing in oil

IRS: No More Lump Sum Buyouts for Vulnerable Retirees If We Can Help It

President Obama really wants you to retire

Time + compound interest = lots of wealth

Considering a 401(k) Plan for 2015?

IRS 5500-EZ Program: A Brilliant Idea Becomes Permanent

401(k) plan fees - Supreme Court weighs in

Do You Have to Prove Hardship to Get a Hardship?

401(k) plan lawsuits

How Long Should You Maintain Plan Records? It Might Be Longer Than You Think

How to decrease taxable income

Affordable Care Act tax bill

PBGC Premiums: Prepare to Be Soaked

Currency Volatility: Behind the Swings in the Foreign Exchange Market

Becoming a 401(k) Millionaire Is Not As Hard As You Think

How to Beat the Market Experts

GPS is Not Unfair

What are your 401(k) retirement plan goals?

Don't miss these important retirement plan deadlines

New rules for cash balance plans offer flexibility

Retirees to get 1.7% bump in Social Security for 2015

Retirement Saving: Can We Change This Tired Old Story?

O Former Employee, Where Art Thou?

Treasury Department issues final rules regarding Longevity Annuities

Is your inherited IRA the same as a traditional IRA?

A Surprising Fact About Your 401(k) Plan and Beneficiary Designation

Thank you, IRS! Pilot program for late Form 5500-EZs announced

It's Not Nice to Keep a Secret

PPA Restatement for most IRS 401(a) Proﬁt Sharing and 401(k) Plans