PROspectives

If you are a seasoned TPA, this month’s PensionPro will certainly elicit some nostalgia.   ABG Retirement Plan Services is a dynamic firm that has been in business for fifty years! Just think about that for a minute. For an industry that typically equates its...

With over three hundred TPA and actuarial firms on PensionPro, we are fortunate to have the opportunity to work through operational issues with our clients.   Surprisingly, it appears business owners and managers today are facing similar operational challenges...

Michelle Meyer and Jim Heinzer Systematic and extraordinarily rapid growth is typically associated with success – new revenue, greater profits, and more clients. However, Benefit Plans Plus (BPP) knows all too well that there is a business risk element to rapid...

Written in collaboration with Jill Dennis, Partner, Dunbar, Bender & Zapf Ask any business owner to choose what’s more important; existing client retention or new sales, and you’ll find the answer is both. Sales and retention are equally important. Of course,...

Elliot and Aaron Cohen Client retention is the key to maintaining long-term profitability; it’s a cost-effective practice any TPA firm can use to improve their bottom-line. When retention is high, the firm can focus on enhancing current services, instead of spending...

At a recent conference, I heard TPA firm owners and managers lamenting the fact that, though they were adding plans at their normal rate, they were terminating/losing the same number or more.   Their concern was that, overall, the number of retirement plans was...

Rich Searle, ERPA Winning business requires two things: good leads and follow up. Though the principal is basic, it can be easier said than done. Many TPAs struggle with the sales process. Referral-based services require even more sales communication than other types...

Nothing is ever truly safe. That is the uncomfortable truth about our world and certainly, connected information systems. It’s uncomfortable to think, and hard to accept, but it is true.   Now that we have acknowledged that, we can talk about what real security...

Dominick Franzini and Eric Burnside Gathering data is no longer enough. In any industry, but especially among TPAs, the chief goal is charting the future – by way of enlightened data analysis. “We must be good at capturing and leveraging data to express valuable...

Written by Amanda Iverson, Pinnacle Plan Design, LLC At a recent industry conference, I was asked to speak on the topic of TPA business success. While each person’s definition of success will be different, three vital elements of our TPA success tend to remain...

Anne Weinblatt, QKA, QPA, ERPA From client onboarding to plan termination, asset reconciliation to 5500 filings — if it’s trackable, it’s tracked at the Hilb Group. “We pretty much use PensionPro for everything,” said Anne Weinblatt, operations manager for retirement...

It’s getting to be that time of year again. Yes, the holidays are coming, but, as a TPA you know that shortly 92% of all plans that file with the DOL will transmit highly sensitive data to an administrative or actuarial service organization.   According to the...