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How to Reduce Risk Using Fidelity Bonds and Fiduciary Liability Coverage

By Craig Erickson Managing an organization’s employee benefit and retirement plan comes with risks, and potential missteps can affect both the plan administrator and participants. To protect you from those risks, insurance companies offer fiduciary bond — often called fidelity bond — and fiduciary liability coverage. And while the two terms sound similar, there are distinct differences. Assets and administrators at risk The plan administrator can act, or fail to act, in ways that...

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What’s your Responsibility to Find Missing 401(k) Plan Participants?

By Craig Erickson  As the fiduciary of a 401(k) plan, you are responsible for retirement plan participants, even if they’ve left your company with no forwarding addresses or you have contact information that’s no longer valid. If employees work at your company long enough to take part in your 401(k) plan, and then disappear, moving from state to state, taking a series of jobs,  how responsible are you for tracking them down? When a participant cannot be located via routine delivery...

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