You will hear about how certain retirement plan providers have won awards. Awards are impressive, but sometimes they\u2019re not. You have to be wary as to who gave the award and what the award really means, You also shouldn\u2019t just pick a provider because they won an award.<\/p>\n
The best example is my local business newspaper which gave a lifetime achievement award to the former managing attorney for my law firm. The law firm is a big-time advertiser of that newspaper and under this managing attorney\u2019s watch, two offices closed and the firm is down 50% in size. Is the award justified or is it simply a thank you to a long-term advertiser? Probably the latter.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve seen plan providers tout awards that aren\u2019t worth the paper the certificate is printed on. I\u2019ve seen plan providers tout awards I never knew existed. Heck, I could mention that I won the Martin Buskin Award for Excellence in Student Journalism, but that was so 1994 and in college.<\/p>\n
So many reasons are there to hire a plan provider, some type of award-winning isn\u2019t one of them.<\/p>\n
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