Advisors
When it comes to adding real value to a retirement plan, you must take the time to do it right. Building and designing a plan from the ground up, has been proven to be the best solution for advisors to adding more retirement plan clients to their practice.
The “Architect” was developed to provide a bundled solution, for advisors, to manage all the moving parts of a retirement plan in the unbundled world of open architecture.
The “Architect” gets there arms around all these moving parts:
• Custodians
• Record Keepers
• Third Party Administrators
• Legal/ Accounting/Invoicing
• Co-Fiduciary Services
• Money Manager Relationships
We then add additional support to the Advisor by offering assistance with:
• Assistance in analyzing prior carrier fees and expenses
• Complete proposal presentations
• Ordering enrollment booklets
• Assembling plan sponsor agreements
• Coordinating the entire transition process
• Running the “Call Center” for all plan sponsors and participants to call
Our first step, is we have create a state of the art proposal system that address every aspect of the retirement plan process from plan takeovers, plan design, TPA service, record keepers, website and investment policy statements. We then provide a detailed breakdown fee discloser, from initial setup cost to ongoing annual administration, broker comp and fund expenses and revenue sharing. We then add funds that either you have selected or a sample fund line up that we have created showing all the funds expense and revenue sharing, followed by fund fact sheets on each of the funds.
One of the greatest values, we believe, you can provide to a new potential client, is to analyze the current fees and expenses on their existing plan. The Architect will assist you in preparing a comprehensive breakdown of their current plan and a side by side comparison. If you can provide us with the information we request on our proposal request form we will do this work for you.
Once a prospective client has made a decision to buy for you, the Architect team will prepare all the plan sponsor agreements, and then set up weekly conference calls with you and the plan sponsor to execute the transition process. We will coordinate census files, ordering enrollment materials, scheduling enrollment meetings and sending black out notices. We will work with you on mapping and stay with everyone until the transfer is complete and all participant accounts are live.
To simplify your life even more. The “Architect” has create a call center for all plan sponsors and participants to contact no matter what there questions is, loans, distributions, changing passwords or generating reports. Should a participant contact us for question regarding their investment elections, we will call forward the call to your office for you to either assist them with there investment questions or have your assistant schedule a time for you to contact them.
For those advisors that choose to go the extra mile for their clients and truly show their clients what they're really paying for, the Architect will be the last retirement plan you will ever buy.
What is needed to quote the Architect? Download the pdf.
Download the Sample Proposal
View the online brochure
Download the Call Center Flow Chart