Your company's 401(k) fees might be costing employees 20-30% of their retirement savings. Annual plan expenses of 2-3% shrink a 7-8% return down to 4-5%, compounding over decades. High fees also expose employers to fiduciary liability.
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Within your company's 401(k) plan, the fees and expenses charged to employee accounts could be costing your employees as much as 30 to 40% of their retirement savings and creating a fiduciary liability for you and your business. Because administrative charges, investment expenses, and money management fees on a company's 401(k) plan typically amount to as much as 2 or 3% of every dollar in in every account every year. Now, 2 or 3% might not seem like much, but every 1% your plan charges in annual fees over 20 or 30 years of employment reduces an employee's retirement savings by 20 to 30%. Or think of it like this: if an employee's 401(k) grows at an average rate of 7 or 8% a year, and they pay 2 or 3% in annual fees, their net annual growth rate is only 4 or 5%, not 7.