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"We are what we
repeatedly do.
Excellence, then,
is not an act,
but a habit."
- Aristotle
"Thanks to The 401k Coach, I have a process that differentiates me from the thundering herd and the confidence that my process is the right one for my client. This business is becoming very scary for the average rep. It’s so great not to be average."
~ J. Reardon, Coach® Member

The 401k Coach Webcast Library

Optimizing 401(k) Plans Using the Cash Balance Option

Do you work with closely held companies or professional service groups?  Learn how to increase the retirement savings for business owners and at the same time reduce plan costs for plan participants.  We will explore how using Cash Balance Plans on top of a 401(k) plan can benefit both the plan sponsor and plan participants.  Learn more about the ideal candidates for this combo plan design.  Additionally we show you how to explain it to the plan sponsor in ways that they will understand. 

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Fifty Ways to Love Your Leverage in the 401(k) Marketplace

Join Charlie in a coversation with Barbara Lewis, an expert in financial services marketing and communication, about the numerous ways in which advisors can capitalize on marketing activities. "One of the biggest pitfalls that I've notied in marketing is that very few advisors leverage the time and effort that they've put into a specific project." Using a leveragability score, Barbara will demonstrate how activities such as articles, speeches, and newsletters can be leveraged for maximum impact. Learn how to enhance the returns from your marketing endeavors by attending this free webcast.

Barbara Lewis, Centurion Consulting Group, has been working with clients in the retirement services industry for over two decades. She has a MBA from UCLA Anderson, where she lectures on marketing topics. She began her career as a journalist writing for The Wall Street Journal.

Charlie Epstein, founder of The 401k Coach Program, will share the unique tools and processes The 401k Coach Program has developed to assist advisors in marketing themselves and growing their business in a way that sets them apart from their competitors.

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How Service Agreements Create Opportunities in the 408(b)(2) World

Please join us on Tuesday, March 22nd for this informative webcast.  It will provide you with an overview on how to maximize service agreements and take advantage of opportunities presented by the Department of Labor 408(b)(2) disclosure requirements; these new regulations begin in January of 2012.  While the Department of Labor stopped short of requiring financial advisors to have a service agreement as part of the 408(b)(2) Fee disclosure you should still consider having one.  This webinar will address the competitive advantages of financial advisors who have a service agreement versus those advisors who don't.  In addition, this webinar will will provide an overview of insurance and indemnification arrangements which are used to protect the fiduciaries of company retirement plans.  Don't miss this webcast!  As an attendee you will also receive the top ten tips for creating a service agreement, a useful tool for writing or enhancing your service agreement.  

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The $7 for $1 Solution: Multiply Your Revenue Exponentially

Learn how to create the $7 for $1 Solution and create your very own multi-million dollar roll in and roll over business. We believe that for ever dollar of retirement revenue you generate, there is $7 of ancillary business. That's a seven times multiplier!

Now, imagine if you had a systematized and thoughtful approach to matching participants' financial needs with your opportunity to capture 100% of this seven times multiplier revenue.  Join us and our guest speakers Bruce Ashton of Reish & Reicher and Ed Dressel of Trust Builders for this webcast and learn how to create a repeatable system of success; formalize a process to meet with your 401(k) participants to ensure they are meeting their financial goals and objectives; understand how to navigate DOL's prohibited transaction rules for roll overs into 401(k) plans and see the tools and technology to enhance this process.

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Q & A with The Coach - Why should you join Year 1?

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Creating YOUR 401(k) Value Monopoly

"The Beyond the Norm"

Webinar Series Fee Disclosure as an adviser's Best Pratice is the new 401(k) inflection tipping point which elite 401(k) advisers will deploy to gain monopolostic advantage in their marketplace. We'll provide you with an update on ERISA litigations and its impact on fee disclosure and your practice. Charlie Epstein of The 401k Coach Program and Marcia Wagner of The Wagner Law Group debate the key issues of the day relative to fee disclosure, litigation, and developing a strategic edge.

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The Great 401(k) Fee Disclosure Debate Web Cast

Practice Disruptor or Competitive Advantage?

The new fee disclosure requirements will begin a new era in the 401(k) industry for both financial advisers and broker dealers. How is the industry responding to the new fee disclosure regulations and the new 408(b) (2) reporting? What do advisers need to know to be ahead of the curve? How can you make these new requirement something positive in your business? Come listen to a debate on the issues that will shape the future of you and your 401(k) practice. This is a free webcast.

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The Great Fiduciary Adviser Debate Web Cast


To be or not to be a Fiduciary Adviser at the Plan Participant Level is a question that every 401(k) adviser will need to addres in the near future. What will it entail to be a fiduciary adviser at the plan participant level versus the plan level? Listen to a highly informative, recent discussion that took place with three industry experts: Blaine Aikin of fi360, Lou Harvey of DALBAR and Host Charlie Epstein of The 401k Coach Program.

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Letter from Congress to the DOL PDF >
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