Here we are again, ladies and gentlemen. Right back in the middle of another big stock market decline. Your clients now have another opportunity to lose giant amounts of money in their company 401(k) retirement plan accounts.
But all is not lost. You can successfully navigate the current stock market selloff to expand your household assets under management to include company 401(k) retirement plan assets.
In a previous era, only doctors, lawyers and a few Fortune 500 executives could buy any investment they wanted in their company retirement plan account. Most individual investors had to settle for an expensive and poor-performing menu of mutual funds.
Times have changed. Today's modern technology provides the opportunity for your investment advisory practice to change along with them.
Your client's inattention and lack of professional investment advice is a perfect recipe for a repeat of the 2008-2009 stock market disaster. However, your best client's six-figure company 401(k) retirement plan account balances can be improved with your guidance and expertise.
Company 401(k) retirement plans offer a core group of mutual funds, a collection of target date retirement funds but often a self-directed brokerage window as well. The best single way to improve the company 401(k) retirement plan experience for your best clients is to urge them to take advantage of the self-directed brokerage option.
I would be willing to bet that even your most sophisticated clients don't know off the top of their heads if they have a self-directed brokerage account, or SDBA, option available in their company 401(k) retirement plan account. This company retirement plan feature is exactly the kind of information that never gets read in quarterly email updates from the human resources department.
Your current clients would very much welcome your invitation to analyze their current company retirement plan main mutual fund menu. The same goes for finding out if they have an SDBA option available to them.
And here's a prospecting tip: If your clients don't know about an SDBA company 401(k) retirement plan account option, where do you think other individuals at the same company stand? Your current clients can become the best referral source in your career when you get to know their company 401(k) retirement plan account menu and features.
