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Retirement Plans for Educational Institutions

Comprehensive retirement plan support for higher education, built to serve faculty and staff across campuses and departments.
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How We Help Educational Institutions

Our expertise with 403(b) and 457 plans helps educational institutions maintain compliance, consistency, and clear documentation across their retirement programs.
Your Operating Reality
Academic calendars, multiple pay groups, and shared governance require a plan that’s organized, consistent, and easy to explain to faculty and staff.
What Matters to Your Industry
  • Clear eligibility and service rules across faculty, staff, and adjuncts
  • Vendor coordination and predictable pricing
  • Investment oversight aligned with the IPS
  • Communication timed to the academic calendar

What You Can Expect

A steady review cadence, fee checks with documentation, investment monitoring, and participant education timed to enrollment cycles, delivered in materials that leadership can use.
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Meeting minutes and clear action lists for committee and board packets

Simplified enrollment processes that reduce administrative work

Investment oversight and reporting that follow the IPS

A single point of contact for HR and benefits teams

NAPA Top DC Advisor Teams

The NAPA Top DC Advisor Teams list issued on March 18, 2025 for the 2025 year highlights retirement plan advisor firms that are in a single physical location, and have at least $100 million in DC assets under advisement.  The list is based on self-reported assets under advisement as of December 3, 2024. 433 teams were selected. No fee was paid for the nomination, receipt, or promotion of the award.  Third-party ratings are no guarantee of future investment success and do not ensure that a client or prospective client will experience a higher level of performance or results. These ratings should not be construed as an endorsement of the advisor by any client nor are they representative of any one client’s evaluation. 

NAPA Top Women of Excellence- MVP

NAPA Top Women of Excellence – MVP award issued by National Association of Plan Advisors (NAPA) on October 20, 2025 for the 2025 Year was awarded to non-producing (possibly) licensed relationship managers primarily focused on managing relationships and the retention of clients.  The financial professional applied for the recognition.  Criteria used to determine the winner(s) includes information provided on a series of quantitative and qualitative questions on their experience and practice, as well as accomplishments, contributions to the industry, state of workplace retirement plans and the ways in which they give back.  Numerous people were considered for this honor and 110 were selected in the MVP category.  No fee was paid for the nomination, receipt, or promotion of the award.  Third-party ratings are no guarantee of future investment success and do not ensure that a client or prospective client will experience a higher level of performance or results. These ratings should not be construed as an endorsement of the advisor by any client nor are they representative of any one client’s evaluation. 

PLANADVISER Top Retirement Plan Advisers

Advo(k)ate Advisors received the 2026 PLANADVISER Top Retirement Plan Adviser recognition. The adviser did not pay a fee to be considered.