{"id":5960,"date":"2022-02-01T11:23:06","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T16:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/?p=5960"},"modified":"2022-02-01T11:23:06","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T16:23:06","slug":"research-who-you-will-partner-up-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/?p=5960","title":{"rendered":"Research who you will partner up with"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seemed like a good idea at the time, replacing Matt Hutcheson as the fiduciary of an open multiple employer plan (MEP). Within a few weeks including conversations with adopting employers with missing money, I realized that this was a bad idea.<\/p>\n<p>A large national plan provider recently went into a strategic relationship with a third-party administrator (TPA) with a terrible reputation for excessive termination costs. The problem is that this national plan provider already knew.<\/p>\n<p>When developing strategic relationships with plan providers, keep your ear to the ground and investigate them and their reputation. I can tell you from experience that working with a retirement plan embezzler wasn\u2019t a good thing.<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='{title}' st_url='{url}' displayText='ShareThis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seemed like a good idea at the time, replacing Matt Hutcheson as the fiduciary of an open multiple employer plan (MEP). Within a few weeks including conversations with adopting employers with missing money, I realized that this was a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/?p=5960\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='{title}' st_url='{url}' displayText='ShareThis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5961,"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5960\/revisions\/5961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}