Associated Bank is pleased to announce that Associated Financial Group has been named as one of the 2017 PLANADVISER Top 100 Retirement Plan Advisers.

 

The PLANADVISER Top 100 Retirement Plan Advisers is an annual listing of adviser individuals and teams that stand out in the industry in terms of a series of quantitative measures. These include the dollar value of qualified plan assets under administration (AUA), as well as the number of plans under advisement.

 

Associated Financial Group was recognized in the small team segment based on its retirement plans under advisement of 210.

 

The Top 100 Retirement Plan Advisers is segmented into four groups based on the number of advisers and number of total employees including support staff: Individual advisers are one adviser with support staff; a small team comprises of two or more advisers and support staff, the total not exceeding 10; a large team is a group of 11 to 35 advisers and support staff; mega teams have 36 or more team members.

 

To qualify for a particular segment individuals needed to advise a minimum of 110 plans or $900 million in retirement plan AUA; small teams had to advise at least $1.8 billion in retirement plan assets or more than 125 plans; large teams needed $4 billion or more in retirement plan AUA or 180 or more plans; and mega teams had to oversee at least $12 billion in retirement plan AUA or more than 250 plans.

 

The 2017 PLANADVISER Top 100 Retirement Plan Advisers list is available online here. It was printed in the January–February issue of PLANADVISER magazine, and the advisers named to the list will also be honored at the annual PLANSPONSOR/PLANADVISER Awards for Excellence dinner on March 30. Please visit the event page for more information.

 

 

PLANADVISER Top 100

The PLANADVISER Top 100 Retirement Plan Advisers list is compiled from responses to the PLANADVISER Retirement Plan Adviser Survey. The list is drawn solely from a set of quantitative variables and information in the survey supplied by the advisers themselves. For an adviser to be eligible for recognition in this year’s Top 100, he had to submit a completed entry to the 2016 Retirement Plan Adviser Survey, which was fielded this past September. A sub-segment of the questions was used to determine eligibility for the Top 100.

 

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