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Selecting a 401K Plan Provider

January 22nd, 2008 · 61 Comments

  

If you wish to contribute towards a 401k retirement plan you will have to select the right agency. You have the option to choose from wide range of service providers. There are number of agencies like financial services companies, insurance companies, third party administrators and mutual fund companies that provide the 401k plan services. Apart from certain variations like fees structure and different choices for investments, these companies, referred to as service providers, have identical 401k plans for their clients.

Based on the services provided by these 401k plan providers they are classified in two categories, full service provider and unbundled provider.

The Full-service Providers

These types of agencies of 401k plan offer complete range of investments options and administrative services to their clients. These plan providers are also known as ‘bundle plan providers’. These full-service providers are considered as best guiding agency for all information and assistance with regard to 410k plan. Usually, small scale businesses and medium size businesses with limited number of employees are the main customers of these full-service providers.

Following are the examples of full service provider agencies.

  • Insurance Companies
  • Banks
  • Mutual fund companies
  • Third Party Administrators
  • There are other agencies like payroll providers, online plan providers and HR outsourcing companies which may offer you full-service.

There are full-service providers who outsource the plan responsibilities to other agencies. To elaborate, an employee may approach a third party administrator for a 401k Plan; however the third party administrator, in ensuring to offer you certain mutual funds, can outsource the plan to that mutual fund company.

The main advantage of choosing a full-service provider or bundled service provider is that you get all the requisites at one place. The main drawback of this bundled service provider is that it offers very limited investment flexibility in their plan. To elaborate, if you choose a mutual fund company as your bundle service provider you have the option only to invest in the funds of that company. Check out this aspect and ensure that you choose a full-service provider that offers you various investment options within the plan.

Unbundled Service Providers

An employer has the option to appoint his own HR professional along-with a service provider for designing and implementing a 401k plan. In this combination activity, HR professional will be responsible for maintaining records and the vendor or service provider will be responsible for testing of compliance and management of investments.

As the plan is designed as per your instructions it offers greater flexibility. However, these unbundled plans are some what expensive as it involves at high administrative cost. The only way to check these administrative costs is to exercise then within the company resources. It may lead to employing couple of employees specifically for this purpose.

If you own a considerably small business, bundled plan provider will be ultimate option for you for a 410k plan. Banks, insurance companies and third party administrators may offer you identical plans with compatible costs.

Despite the fact that mutual fund companies offer only their funds as investment option and have lesser flexibility, mutual fund companies are considered to be most popular provider for 410k plan. The other reason for emergence of mutual fund companies as leading providers is that the company management feels that popular names attract more employees as participants of the plan. 401k plans designed by banks are targeted at bigger companies.

Popularity: 68% [?]



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