Quantcast
The MFWire
Manage Email Alerts | Sponsorships | About MFWire | Who We Are

Subscribe to MFWire.com's News Alerts [click]

Rating:The 401k Industry Takes Nashville Not Rated 0.0 Email Routing List Email & Route  Print Print
Monday, April 16, 2018

The 401k Industry Takes Nashville

Reported by Neil Anderson, Managing Editor

Nashville is the place to be this week if you're in, or interesting in getting into, the advisor-sold side of the 401(k) business.

More than 2,200 defined contribution industry insiders, including more than 1,100 FAs, have converged on Music City for the 2018 NAPA 401(k) Summit. The three-day conference, which started yesterday afternoon and will wrap up at lunchtime tomorrow, has grown to be the biggest conference in the entire 401(k) industry. Our sister publication 401kWire is onsite, covering the conference.

The giant event has a distinctly FA flavor to it. Think Schwab Impact, TD LINC, Pershing INSITE, or the Morningstar Investment Conference, not the ICI GMM. There are big parties (with live country music — this is Nashville, after all), offsite vendor dinners, practice management breakout sessions, and keynote speeches from experts on millennials and cybersecurity. Yet unlike many of the giant retail FA conference, the NAPA 401(k) Summit is run by a non-profit industry trade group (the National Association of Plan Advisors, NAPA, led by executive director Brian Graff), and not by an industry vendor. That may make the summit more neutral ground for different vendors to attend and support.

Fundsters and retail FAs will recognize many of the exhibiting companies — brand name fund firms, big broker-dealers, insurance companies, etc. — but perhaps not the faces at the booths, which are packed with executives from the DC I-O or recordkeeping or retirement plan home office sides of these firms. And the FAs, too, are just a bit different from their wealth management-focused brethren.

The big questions looming over the NAPA 401(k) Summit are the same ones looming over the wealth management world: is the DoL rule (i.e. the fiduciary reg) really dead, and if so, what's next? The answers, so far, seem to be a resounding "Stay tuned!" followed by urgings to "Stay the course" with fiduciary-friendly adaptations. The post-fiduciary reg world, it seems, is not quite here. 

Stay ahead of the news ... Sign up for our email alerts now
CLICK HERE

0.0
 Do You Recommend This Story?



GO TO: MFWire
Return to Top
 News Archives
2025: Q3Q2Q1
2024: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2023: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2022: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2021: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2020: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2019: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2018: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2017: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2016: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2015: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2014: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2013: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2012: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2011: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2010: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2009: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2008: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2007: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2006: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2005: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2004: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2003: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2002: Q4Q3Q2Q1
 Subscribe via RSS:
Raw XML
Add to My Yahoo!
follow us in feedly


  1. MFDF Director Discussion Series - Open Forum, July 9
  2. ICI webinar - The Digital Future of Asset Management: Current State and Regulatory Landscape, July 10
  3. MFDF webinar - Mid-Year Tax Update for Registered Investment Companies, July 10
  4. MFDF Director Discussion Series - Open Forum (Philadelphia), July 15
  5. 2025 MMI Women in Advisory Solutions Forum, Jul 15-16
  6. Nicsa webinar - How Trusted GenAI is Transforming Data Access in Asset Management, July 16
  7. MFDF webinar - M&A and Consolidation in Asset Management, July 16
  8. MFDF webinar - ETF Conversions, July 17
  9. MFDF Director Discussion Series - Open Forum (New York), July 22
  10. MFDF Ask Anything webinar - AI Edition, July 24
  11. MFDF webinar - Use of Derivatives by RICs, July 29
  12. MFDF Director Discussion Series - Open Forum (Columbus, Ohio), August 20
  13. Samfund Soiree Boston 2025, August 21
  14. MFDF webinar - The Audit Committee Chair's Guide to Balancing Duties and Emerging Issues, September 3
  15. ICI ETF Conference, Sep 8-10
  16. Nicsa webinar - Reimagining Reconciliation: AI, Regulation, and Capital Markets Transformation, September 10
  17. MFDF webinar - Series Trust Funds - Compliance and Board Reporting, September 10
  18. MFDF In Focus - Board Oversight of DEI in Current Landscape, September 11
  19. MFDF webinar - MFDF 15(c) White Paper Webinar Series: Part 4 – Enforcement Action Takeaways, September 16
  20. MFDF webinar - Latest in Closed-End Funds Litigations, September 23
  21. MFDF webinar - Fixed Income Insights: Navigating Market Trends & Opportunities, September 24
  22. MFDF webinar - Risk Management Essentials for RICs and Boards, September 29
  23. MFDF webinar - Diligent - Tools for Fund Board Book, October 1
  24. 10th annual Fuse Forum, October 8
  25. MFDF webinar - Essential Strategies in Board Oversight of Operational Risk Management, October 14
  26. 2025 MMI Annual Conference, Oct 15-17




©All rights reserved to InvestmentWires, Inc. 1997-2025
14 Wall Street | 20th Floor | New York, NY 10005 | P: 212-331-8968 | F: 212-331-8998
Privacy Policy :: Terms of Use