Most 401(k) plans charge 2-3% annually in fees that can eat 20-30% of your retirement balance over 20-30 years. Employers sponsoring these plans are legally responsible for monitoring whether those fees are excessive, creating real liability.
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The fees and expenses charged within your company's 401(k) plan could be costing your employees as much as 30% to 40% of their retirement savings and creating a fiduciary liability for your business. Because administrative charges, investment expenses, and asset management fees typically amount to as much as 2% or 3%, and they're deducted from total plan assets 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 each 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, those fees are costing them 30 to 40% of their earnings. What's more, you, the employer, as the plan sponsor, have a fiduciary responsibility.