Ask parties on some different ends of the retirement industry food chain about fee disclosure regs and you'll get some very different opinions – ranging from a sense of satisfaction to unfettered panic.

A common thread emerges, however: As the days get closer to the July 1 deadline for service providers to offer disclosures to plan sponsors and the Aug. 31 deadline for initial notices to plan participants, the pure efficiency of offering electronic options is still a hotly debated topic.

Chad Larsen, president of Moreton Retirement Partners in Denver, Colo., gets to confront the more challenging end of the spectrum, the small employers who have been left largely to their own devices to examine, synthesize and act on the EBSA regulations. Larsen handles both ERISA and non-ERISA plans with more than 100 small companies, and he's working hard to minimize the chaos.

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