On Thursday, August 14, 2014 the Department of Labor issued its updated Field Assistance Bulletin 2014-01 to help fiduciaries with their...

Jr. Plan Administrator Heather has been with the company since the beginning on 2013. 1. Tell us a little about yourself. I have 3 of...

TriStar Pension Consulting is excited to announce the release of our new website. We’ve been in business for over 15 years and this is...

If you are a business owner who’s considering starting a 401(k) plan for your employees and your company, then you are already headed in...

Each year plan sponsors are required to sign Form 5500.  This tutorial video instructs you on how to electronically sign your Form 5500.

This video instructs you on how to retrieve your DOL credentials. Your DOL Username and Pin are required to sign your form 5500.

Each year, plan sponsors are required to sign Form 5500.  In order to sign Form 5500, plan sponsors must first obtain Department of Labor...

The safe harbor 401(k) plan roared onto the scene in 1998 as a new design that allowed company owners and other highly compensated...

A boomerang employee (as we will use that name in this article) is, quite simply, one who leaves and then comes back to work…a rehire. As...

TriStar was formed in 1999 as twenty-something Shannon Edwards set out to start her own business.  The story began as it does for most...

If you are someone who is fairly new to the Retirement plan industry (like me) then you probably don’t really know the difference between...

Here’s a great article we picked from Marketwatch: Complicated, non intuitive terminology may be keeping large numbers of Americans from...

With Thanksgiving approaching this week, we thought this article, ‘Something to be thankful for in your 401k account’ would be fitting to...