Dan Cole

About the Author

Dan Cole

Dan Cole is the Research and Development Manager for FreeERISA, a leading employee benefits and retirement data website. With nearly a decade of experience guiding FreeERISA from an off-shoot of Judy Diamond Associates to one of the markets's top destinations with more than 750,000 users, Dan knows the ins-and-outs of the data behind this multi-trillion dollar industry and the people who make it hum.

Dan was a featured speaker on best practices at InfoCommerce Group's Data Content Summit in 2010, and previously wrote the introductions to the FreeERISA Daily eNewsletter.

Dan enjoys cooking, the great outdoors, and being nice to his mother.

• The Obamacare opportunity

  By Dan Cole  |  August 13, 2012

  Change is scary, and a lot of these changes have the potential to hurt the broker community.

• Chick-Fil-401(k)-A

  By Dan Cole  |  August 7, 2012

  Whether you agree or disagree with the CEO of Chick-Fil-A, who doesn’t love a good media circus? So let’s start one.

• Why I hate politics

  By Dan Cole  |  July 30, 2012

  You want to get political? Let’s get political about politics.

• More on the Bain ESOP

  By Dan Cole  |  July 24, 2012

  It would seem that I struck a very touchy nerve — like where a piece of frigid ice stabs into the exposed root of a split molar.

• Millions missing from Bain & Company ESOP

  By Dan Cole  |  July 18, 2012

  I’m simply confused by what seems like some intensely obfuscating reporting on the part of Bain and PriceWaterhouseCoopers.

• This blog is false

  By Dan Cole  |  July 10, 2012

  I’m a big fan of paradoxes.

• The Obamacare bandwagon

  By Dan Cole  |  June 29, 2012

  Of course everyone knows the big news this week about the Supreme Court upholding Obamacare.

• Retirement of the stars

  By Dan Cole  |  June 26, 2012

  For some reason I can’t quite figure out, there are a series of 5500s filed in the names of a number of famous musicians, usually with around 2-5 participants and between five- and seven-figures in assets.

• 10 health carriers that did their homework

  By Dan Cole  |  June 19, 2012

  Last week I put together a list of the ten large health carriers most likely to be delinquent in providing needed information to plan sponsors.

• 10 health carriers that didn't do their homework

  By Dan Cole  |  June 12, 2012

  As many of you probably know, the Schedule A on the form 5500 provides detailed information on an insurance policy. What you might not know is that, at the very bottom of the Schedule A, there’s a little check box that asks whether or not the insurance carrier provided all...