On Wednesday, November 6, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced its updated dollar limitations for tax-qualified, defined benefit and defined contribution plans. This guidance provides tax year 2020, cost‑of‑living adjustments (COLA), affecting dollar limitations for pension plans and other retirement-related items.
The team at Fulcrum Partners shares this important update from IslerDare PC, on the proposed new retirement plan electronic disclosure rule, from the Department of Labor (the DOL), regarding the allowance of online retirement plan disclosures.
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, FL — (October 29, 2019) Fulcrum Partners, executive benefits advisory, announces the hiring of Mike Powers, the firm’s new Chief Administrative Officer. Powers, who assumed the newly created role earlier this month, will manage the firm’s day-to-day operations and help facilitate strategic initiatives. Fulcrum Partners is one of the nation’s leading executive benefits consultancies and currently has …
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, FL — (October 22, 2019) With the commitment of Co-Founder and Managing Director, G. Scott Cahill, Fulcrum Partners, LLC is a supporter of Feeding Children Everywhere (FCE). Dedicated to sustainability, Feeding Children Everywhere offers a Full Cart program to help working individuals and families extend their grocery budget and provide career services, international development, domestic meal distribution, …
Based on 2018 research results1, published and released by Principal® earlier this year, employers recognize that competitive benefit offerings remain key in attracting top talent. In a job market that can be tight and highly competitive, employers are looking for ways to recruit and retain key employees. Principal’s research shows that retaining and motivating key employees, along with restoring a …
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, FL — (Oct 15, 2019) Thanks to the support of Co-Founder and Managing Director, G. Scott Cahill, Fulcrum Partners, LLC was recognized as a corporate sponsor of the Luis Palau Association’s Love Côte d’Ivoire Festival. For more than 50 years, Luis Palau and his team have led ministry events around the world, sharing their faith through evangelism …
Anthropologist Margaret Mead’s famous quote, “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has,” appears more than once on the Fulcrum Partners website. By most standards, our core team of managing directors and financial consultants are a “small group”. However, they take their responsibility to effect …
Last week, The Clorox Company announced a new initiative that ties executive pay to the realization of environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals. In tying executive pay to sustainability goals The Clorox Company joins oil companies Royal Dutch Shell PLC and BP PLC, corporations that have already implemented similarly inspired executive pay or bonus structures. Laura Stein, Clorox executive vice …
Insights from SRP | Strategic Retirement Partners: Change is Coming if Your Plan Uses a Limited Scope Audit The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Inc. (AICPA) issued a new statement in July changing the requirements for its members that perform retirement plan audits. Previously, if a large plan utilized the limited scope audit option, the auditor effectively could …
The following article, originally published on the Executive Compensation Blog by Attorney Michael S. Melbinger, is republished here with permission. Compensation Clawback Attempts Lead to Unintended Consequences Just back from another excellent CompensationStandards.com/NASPP* Annual Conference. Among the many new and interesting topics explored was an issue related to compensation clawbacks, which recently has been thrust into prominence. The …