Former Invesmart participants:
Access to retirement accounts on retirement.standard.com is being rolled out over the remainder of 2008. We will send you a Personal Identification Number letter about two weeks prior to your plan's transition. This letter will include an effective date after which you will have access to your retirement plan account. Please click on the link below under Participant Services to register your account on or after your effective date.
If you are a plan sponsor, use the login information that you used to pre-register for web access.
We look forward to serving you in the future!
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The Standard has published two new guides to help employers prepare for the pending fee disclosure rules. Download “Proposed 408(b)(2) Regulations” to learn how the rules will affect plan fiduciaries and “Participant Fee Disclosures” to learn how they will affect the information disclosed to employees.
You can learn more about retirement plan fees by downloading our educational guides.
The Supreme Court ruled that plan participants can sue plan fiduciaries under ERISA Section 404(c) to recover investment losses to their individual 401(k) accounts. However, Section 404(c) also provides plan sponsors some protection, and The Standard can help. Read or download Participants and Fiduciary Lawsuits, the LaRue Decision or the Plan Sponsor's Guide to ERISA 404(c) for more information.
Read or download "Get to Know the Facts" to see how the most comprehensive set of regulations in the last 40 years affects 403(b) sponsors. You can also download our new paper titled, "Fixing Your 403(b) Plan: Adopting a Best Practices Approach".
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Automatic Enrollment or Managed Account? Read our paper on how a managed account program may be the most realistic solution for plan sponsors looking to address the long-term retirement income needs of plan participants.
Check out or download The Standard's position paper "A Participant-Centric Approach: Everybody Wins".