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2024 Regulatory Update
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2024 Regulatory Update

This year's annual Regulatory Update has significantly shifted from regulation to litigation. The last two publications focused largely on SECURE 2.0 provisions and their impact on retirement plans. SECURE 2.0 remains an active topic in our industry, as many mandatory and optional provisions continue to take effect. However, the litigation focused on plan sponsors and governmental agencies has taken the spotlight.

Navigating Retirement Plan Transitions
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Navigating Retirement Plan Transitions

Transitioning your retirement plan from one recordkeeper to another can be a complex and significant undertaking. In this guide, we will walk you through how to navigate the challenges of such transitions while offering best practices to ensure a seamless experience for both plan sponsors and participants.

2023 Regulatory Update
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2023 Regulatory Update

Multnomah Group's annual Regulatory Update provides an overview of current legal and legislative events impacting the retirement plan and investment industry.

How to Conduct a Successful Retirement Plan Audit
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How to Conduct a Successful Retirement Plan Audit

Conducting a retirement plan audit is a requirement for large plan sponsors governed by ERISA. By following the tips outlined in this guide, you can plan your audit effectively, gather all the necessary information, review plan operations thoroughly, and report your findings clearly, concisely, and effectively.

Retirement Plan Committee Best Practices
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Retirement Plan Committee Best Practices

Download our guide to help understand what the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) (and similar state laws) requires for retirement plans, how committees have typically functioned, and how committees will need to function to be successful and sustaining for years to come.

Protecting Participant Data: How to Monitor and Mitigate Recordkeeper Conflicts of Interest
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Protecting Participant Data: How to Monitor and Mitigate Recordkeeper Conflicts of Interest

We believe there are six areas where recordkeeping vendors have tried to monetize their relationship with retirement plans. This plan sponsor guide focuses on the fourth way of generating excess revenue ?Ž???????Ž??????Ÿ???Â????Ž??????Ÿ??cross-selling retail financial products. For plan sponsors, it is important to understand how recordkeepers cross-sell retail financial products and what the plan sponsor?Ž???????Ž??????Ÿ???Â????Ž??????Ÿ?Ž???????s obligation is to reduce or eliminate such cross-selling.

Investment Manager Due Diligence Outlines
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Investment Manager Due Diligence Outlines

When it comes to conducting manager selection, it is the things unseen that are the key to having confidence in the manager's ability to outperform in the future. This short resource guide provides a look into how we conduct our investment manager due diligence.

Meeting Minutes: The Importance of Documenting Your Process
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Meeting Minutes: The Importance of Documenting Your Process

Meeting minutes capture the discussion and decisions of the investment committee. Several sets of meeting minutes help weave together the story of the actions the committee has taken related to their retirement plan. Our resource walk through what plan sponsors should know about this documentation.

Investment Policy Statement Review Guide
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Investment Policy Statement Review Guide

When properly drafted and followed, an Investment Policy Statement (IPS) can be a valuable tool to assist plan fiduciaries in managing and mitigating investment-related risk. Read our quick review guide to learn what material you should and should not include in your IPS.

Fee Compression: Five Ways Providers Monetize Recordkeeping
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Fee Compression: Five Ways Providers Monetize Recordkeeping

Generally, we believe there are five areas where recordkeeping vendors have tried to monetize their relationship with retirement plans: proprietary investment management, managed accounts, IRA rollovers, cross-selling retail financial products, and annuitization. In this paper, we take a closer look at each of these five approaches.

Investment Manager Selection for Actively-managed Funds
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Investment Manager Selection for Actively-managed Funds

In this paper, our investment analysts delve into how Multnomah Group conducts the investment manager due diligence that underlies our actively-managed fund recommendations. We cover how we construct actively-managed investment menus and evaluate investment management teams, philosophy and process, and portfolio construction and risk controls.