06.02.2019 01.46 GMT+0000
IRA rollovers are big business for financial providers, representing over $450 million of annual inflows. “Bundled” recordkeepers can use a surprising variety of strategies to attract those assets from employer-sponsored plans-even plans the recordkeepers were hired to support.
“Bundled” retirement plan recordkeepers have significant financial incentives – and a surprising number of strategies—to convince employees to roll assets into IRAs.
Plan recordkeepers with “bundled” services can offer an array of financial services and products—including IRAs. When a plan participant has a distributable event (such as termination of employment or retirement) these bundled providers have tremendous economic incentives to favor the IRA rollover over retaining assets in the employer-sponsored plan. And, these providers utilize a surprising variety of tactics to attract this rollover revenue.
