As we have in the past years, PLANADVISER is soliciting your help in identifying the best retirement plan advisers in the country. If you work with or for, or know of, a great plan adviser or plan adviser team, please help us recognize the best in the business.
Nominations for the 2023 PLANADVISER Retirement Plan Adviser of the Year awards are now being accepted in six categories:
• Plan Sponsor Service – Finalists and winners in this category stand out for their innovation and dedication in the service of retirement plan sponsor clients, with a particular focus on the efficient and effective delivery of plan-level support. The Plan Sponsor Service category is supposed to recognize those directly serving and working with the plan sponsors, and it should be names that are recognizable to the plan sponsor client.
• Plan Participant Service - Finalists and winners in this category stand out for their innovation and dedication in the service of retirement plan participants, with a particular focus on the efficient and effective delivery of individual-level advice and education.
• Mentorship - Finalists and winners in this category stand out for their commitment and success in supporting the personal and professional growth of their firm’s staff, their fellow advisers and their industry peers.
• Efforts in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) - Finalists and winners in this category stand out for their success in addressing the financial services industry’s clear and present diversity problem, with a particular focus on the importance of creating equitable and fair workplaces.
• Community Impact and Giving Back - Finalists and winners in this category stand out for their commitment to serving and supporting the local, regional, national and global communities in which they operate, both from a philanthropic and volunteering perspective.
• Closing the Coverage Gap - Finalists and winners in this category stand out for their dedication to helping more Americans, especially those who work for small businesses or who are members of underrepresented communities, save for retirement in the workplace, including by working with multiple employer plans or pooled employer plans.
Nominations are being solicited from plan sponsor clients, employers, brokers/dealers, as well as from working partners of these advisers, such as product and service providers, investment vendors, accountants, attorneys, and plan administrators. However, self-nominations are not permitted, and the plan sponsor and participant service categories are only accepting nominations from plan sponsor clients.
Click on the attachment below to preview the nominations questions. We give awards to both individual advisers and teams. If you are nominating a team, you can put the firm/team name in question one.
Award recipients across all categories will be honored at the PLANADVISER Industry Leaders Awards on May 10, 2023 in New York City. Finalists and winners for Retirement Plan Adviser of the Year awards will be featured online at PLANADVISER.com and in PLANADVISER magazine. Previous Retirement Plan Adviser of the Year winners can be viewed at https://www.planadviser.com/awards/. NOTE: We welcome all nominations; however, advisers or teams will not be considered in categories in which they won in the prior year.
The deadline for the 2023 Retirement Plan Adviser of the Year awards nominations is January 20, 2023. Questions can be directed to awards@issmediasolutions.com. Please note that all questions require a response for submission.