Since it was Memorial Day last weekend in the United States, and theres nothing more American than a good ol backyard Memorial Day barbecue, I thought wed take a look at the 401(k) plan of Weber-Stephens Products, which has been producing the iconic Weber Kettle grill since 1952.
It's time to take a deeper dive into what you can learn from a 5500. Like dinosaur DNA extracted from mosquitoes trapped in amber, well be putting a single company under the microscope in the coming weeks. But which company?
Over the years, FreeERISA has tried a lot of things to make lead generation more effective, like plan type searches and the Whack-a-Health-Plan Flash game. Despite our best efforts, few things remain as popular as the ability to pull up benefit and retirement plans by ZIP code.
Rather than provide raw data the Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration (now EBSA) gave her, Judy took the extra step of reorganizing the government data into something useful.
Im the FreeERISA Insider. I know everything there is to know about the worlds premier employee benefits and retirement data website.
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