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Having a third party administrator on your side can help appeal to current and prospective clients.

Hwang is counsel at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP.

Harris counsels clients on a wide range of employee benefits issues, including the design and administration of qualified retirement plans, nonqualified deferred compensation arrangements, executive compensation programs, and health/welfare plans. Areas of particular expertise include 401(k) plans, ESOPs, and stock option plans, as well as group health and cafeteria plans. Stuart's work includes advice on the tax and ERISA implications (including COBRA rules) of all types of employee benefit programs.

The regional firm has added at least 17 ex-wirehouse advisers in the first three months of the year.

The bank's retail brokerage operation employs 12 advisers and has approximately $780 million in advisory and brokerage assets.

Retirees who turned 70 1/2 in 2016 have until April 1 to take required minimum distributions from their tax-deferred retirement accounts.

Joanna H. Kim-Brunetti, Esq., is vice president of regulatory affairs at Trusaic.

One planner says there's no reasonable basis for a delay, while another says he can't afford all the compliance costs.