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Robert C. Lawton, AIF, CRPS is the founder and president of Lawton Retirement Plan Consultants, LLC. Mr. Lawton has over 30 years of retirement plan consulting and administration experience and has provided consulting services to many Fortune 500 companies including: Aon Hewitt, Apple Inc., AT&T, First Interstate Bank, Florida Power & Light, General Dynamics, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, IBM, John Deere, Mazda Motor Car Company, Northwestern Mutual, Northern Trust Company, Trek Bikes, Tribune Company, Underwriters Labs and many others. Mr. Lawton may be contacted at 414.828.4015 or bob@lawtonrpc.com.

Analyze existing information to avoid sending a “please tell your friends about me” email.

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Pooled employer plans and auto-enrollment gain Senate support, but advisors working with those plans could soon be held to a higher fiduciary standard.

Treasuries rally in January for the third year in a row.

Telling clients what it means to be a fiduciary is vital, but it shouldn’t come across canned and wordy.

Advisors may want to stop clients from rushing into this investment during uncertain times, even as it starts to regain lost ground.

A somewhat darker tone could be observed emitting from the ETF.com conference this year.

Some advisors with less than five years in practice have achieved remarkable results. Here are some of their secrets.

The benefits debate is part of a concerted effort to show that Social Security is too expensive and needs to be cut, writes Alicia Munnell, director of the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College.