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For more than 25 years I have helped plan sponsors with their 401(k) plans. During that time I have noticed that the best plans appear to possess the following seven attributes:
1. Reasonable Cost. A plan does not have to be the lowest cost plan amongst its peer group, but it definitely shouldn’t be the highest.
Robert C. Lawton, AIF, CRPS is the founder and president of Lawton Retirement Plan Consultants, LLC. Mr. Lawton has over 30 years of retirement plan consulting and administration experience and has … Read full bio
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