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Primary Sponsors

Bank of America
bankofamerica.com

Bank of America is one of the world’s leading financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small and middle-market businesses and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk management products and services. The company provides unmatched convenience in the United States, serving approximately 67 million consumer and small business clients with approximately 4,100 retail financial centers, approximately 16,000 ATMs, and award-winning digital banking with approximately 54 million verified digital users. Bank of America is a global leader in wealth management, corporate and investment banking and trading across a broad range of asset classes, serving corporations, governments, institutions and individuals around the world.

BlackRock
55 East 52nd Street
New York, NY 10017
Ph: 877-99-BLKDC (877-992-5532)
BlackRock.com/DC

White paper: Sustainable investing: resilience amid uncertainty

BlackRock’s purpose is to help more and more people experience financial well-being. As the largest DC investment-only provider,* we are solely focused on offering investment solutions designed to help participants achieve their retirement goals. Today, we continue our history of innovation to pioneer the next generation of retirement solutions, plan design analytics and participant communications.

Our commitment to our clients’ best interests is why BlackRock is trusted to manage more money than any other investment firm in the world, with $9.5 trillion in assets under management.**

* PlanAdviser DCIO Survey. December 31, 2020
** BlackRock, June 30, 2021

Broadridge Financial Solutions
1155 Long Island Avenue
Edgewood, New York 11717
Ph: 888-237-1900
broadridge.com

Broadridge, a global fintech leader with $4 billion in revenue, provides communications, technology, data and analytics. We help drive business transformation with solutions for enriching client engagement, navigating risk, optimizing efficiency and generating revenue growth.

Our integrated, front-to-back solutions translate data into actionable insights and streamline the investment lifecycle. Touching 90% of the world’s mutual fund assets, we are uniquely positioned to help asset managers get ahead of today’s challenges and capitalize on what’s next.

Congruent Solutions
1500 District Avenue
Burlington, MA 01803
Michael Kiernan
Ph: 484-880-3481
michael.k@cspl.com
congruentsolutions.com

Congruent Solutions is a specialist technology solutions and outsourced plan administration services provider to the Retirement Plan industry in the US. We help plan providers, record keepers, and TPAs to be ready for tomorrow and provide a better experience to Sponsors and Participants.

Our CORE suite of retirement plan solutions is cloud-based and modular. Built on contemporary technology, they empower the industry by reducing the TCO of IT and infrastructure by up to 50%. They address the challenge of the ever-increasing squeeze on margins while providing a better customer experience (CX) to sponsors and participants. Our plan administration services provide comprehensive transaction and administrative services through the entire plan administration life cycle. We also help you manage the seasonal workload during Form 5500 and Compliance Testing season. Your expensive resources can then focus on servicing your clients.

Our deep domain expertise, robust & secure infrastructure, and trained resources make us the partner of choice for the Retirement Plan industry.

Congruent Solutions
SPARK Advisory Board & Conference Sponsor

Empower
8525 E. Orchard Road, 9T3
Greenwood Village, CO 80111
Shane M. Fitzpatrick
Ph: 303-737-3481
shane.fitzpatrick@retirementpartner.com
www.empower.com

At Empower, we provide banks, insurance companies, brokerage firms, mutual fund companies, asset managers, and partners of all sizes with retirement plan recordkeeping services and solutions for their customers.

We work on your behalf to deliver thought leadership, implement best practices, and influence Washington to bring about positive legislative and regulatory change in the retirement industry.

We offer our comprehensive menu of services and products to meet your unique needs. In addition, our helpful support team is here to exceed your expectations.
We own and maintain our flexible, scalable, and secure recordkeeping platform to deliver convenience and peace of mind to both you and your customers.
As your private-label partner, we work behind the scenes to empower you to maintain your autonomy, build your brand equity, and grow your client relationships and your business.

Empower
SPARK Advisory Board & Conference Sponsor

Enterprise Iron Financial Industry Solutions, Inc.
14 Cliffwood Ave W, Suite 200
Matawan, NJ 07747
Jennifer Rogers-Linskey
Ph: 860-919-3414
enterpriseiron.com

White paper: Effective System Modernization

Enterprise Iron was founded in 2002 by senior executives from Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch to serve public and private clients in Financial Services, Retirement Services and the Government sector. We deliver impactful Business, Technology and Workforce Solutions that achieve meaningful outcomes, resolve complex challenges, and optimize operations to help drive your business forward.

Our Team of industry professionals average 18+ years of experience in financial services production, technology operations, product management, technology development, implementation, and support roles. As a client-focused, independent provider, we expertly provide unbiased, best of breed support and solutions that consistently delivers results for clients on time and at a cost-savings.

Expertise.Focus.Strength.

Enterprise Iron
SPARK Advisory Board & Conference Sponsor

FIS Retirement Solutions
Jacksonville, Florida
Ph: 484-886-9217
John.Moynihan@fisglobal.com
fisglobal.com

FIS is transforming the way the retirement industry operates at every level, offering a suite of capabilities and services that empower retirement plan providers around the globe. Our industry-leading, scalable ecosystem is intelligent, widely configurable and fully connected, offering a range of flexible solutions and services that supports all aspects of your business and positions you for future growth. With our secure, advanced capabilities, you can increase your flexibility and broaden your reach in the financial world.

FIS
SPARK Advisory Board & Conference Exhibitor

Millennium Trust Company
2001 Spring Road, Suite 700
Oak Brook, Illinois 60523
Pete Welsh
Ph: 312-404-1909
pwelsh@mtrustcompany.com
mtrustcompany.com

Millennium Trust is a leading provider of retirement and financial services and consumer-directed benefits (through PayFlex), with more than five million individual and institutional clients holding more than $47 billion in assets.

We are committed to the evolving needs of individuals, employers, advisors, and institutional partners and to empowering clients with trusted expertise, exceptional service, and access to a wide range of solutions. Whether clients are managing retirement assets, saving for future health care and related expenses, running a business, or seeking choices beyond traditional asset options, Millennium Trust provides flexible digital solutions to support their success.

Millennium Trust
SPARK Advisory Board & Conference Sponsor

MissionSquare Retirement
777 North Capitol Street, NE
Washington, DC 20002
Audrey Hartland
ahartland@missionsq.org
missionsq.org

MissionSquare Retirement is dedicated to guiding those who serve our communities toward a secure and confident financial future. Founded in 1972, MissionSquare Retirement is a mission-based, nonstock, nonprofit, financial services company with approximately $74 billion* in assets under management and administration, focused on delivering retirement plans, investment options, and personalized guidance to more than 1.6 million participant accounts. For nearly 50 years, our mission has been constant — to help those who serve reach their retirement goals with confidence.

For more information, visit missionsq.org.

*As of June 30, 2021

Notarize
Washington, DC
Ph: 805-279-7083
sales@notarize.com
notarize.com

Notarize is the leader in online notarization, which is simpler, smarter and safer than notarizing documents on paper. From buying or selling a home to adopting a child, Notarize is bringing trust online 24/7 for life’s most important moments. For more information, visit notarize.com.

PIMCO
650 Newport Center Drive
Newport Beach, CA 92660
Ph: 949-720-6000
pimco.com

PIMCO is one of the world’s premier fixed income investment managers. With our launch in 1971 in Newport Beach, California, PIMCO introduced investors to a total return approach to fixed income investing.

Our leadership in fixed income and record of skillfully navigating global financial markets has made us ideally equipped to help all our partners in their efforts to achieve meaningful retirement savings and sustainable retirement income.

PIMCO’s dedicated DC and solutions teams support retirement advisors through all phases of plans and investment design – from the QDIA to retirement income – with the goal of delivering optimal, risk-managed investment solutions.

SS&C Retirement Solutions
2000 Crown Colony Drive
Quincy, MA 02169
Ph: 617-521-8397
LMcQuaid@dstsystems.com
ssctech.com

SS&C Retirement Solutions offers a highly configurable set of solutions that allows our clients to provide competitive products and services across all retirement market segments. Our offerings span all plan and investment types and include recordkeeping services, rollover and income portability, plan health and analytics, advisor practice management, personalized education and communications, and financial wellness solutions.

With ownership and expertise across the retirement ecosystem, backed by our unwavering focus on quality, risk mitigation and client satisfaction ensures that we are a high-value, cost-effective, and truly strategic partner.

SS&C
SPARK Advisory Board & Conference Sponsor

TIAA
TIAA.org

White paper: A changing outlook on retirement and retirement plans

TIAA is a leading provider of secure retirements and outcome-focused investment solutions to millions of people and thousands of institutions. It is the #1 not-for-profit retirement market provider, paid more than $3.6 billion to retired clients in 2020 and has nearly $1.4 trillion in assets under management (as of 12/31/2021).

TIAA
SPARK Advisory Board & Conference Sponsor

Wilmington Trust
wilmingtontrust.com

White paper: Collective Investment Trusts: An Important Piece in the Retirement Planning Puzzle

Wilmington Trust, N.A. provides Corporate and Institutional Services including institutional trust, agency, asset management, retirement plan, agency, asset management, and administrative services for clients worldwide who use capital markets financing structures. Wilmington Trust provides direct trust, custody, and fiduciary services for retirement plans, companies, foundations, organizations and financial institutions.

Wilmington Trust also provides Wealth Advisory services with a wide array of personal trust, financial planning, fiduciary, asset management, and family office solutions designed to help high-net-worth individuals and families grow, preserve, and transfer wealth.

Wilmington Trust maintains offices throughout the United States and internationally in London, Paris, Dublin, and Frankfurt. For more information, visit wilmingtontrust.com.

Exhibitors & Other Sponsors

Actuarial Systems Corporation
15840 Monte Street, Suite 108
Sylmar, California 91342
Ph: 800-950-2082×1
sales@asc-net.com
asc-net.com

ASC is a leading provider of software for the retirement plan industry. Approximately half of the 401(k) accounts in the US are tested by ASC’s Compliance Testing System. Compliance Automation Tools, such as Plan Sponsor Driven Testing (DRIVE) and Single Step Processing (SSP) maximize resources for efficient year-end processing. DRIVE is the next-generation in automation, allowing Plan Sponsors to initiate their own testing online. Data from your recordkeeping system integrates with ASC. Plus even more efficiencies are gained because ASC’s Plan documents integrate with ASC’s Compliance Testing System. ASC’s suite of solutions includes Plan Documents, 5500 Forms, Valuation/Recordkeeping Systems, CRM Workflow Systems, and more. Contact us today!

ASC
SPARK Associate Member; Conference Exhibitor

AIG Retirement Services
aigrs.com

American International Group, Inc. (AIG) is a leading global insurance organization. AIG member companies provide a wide range of property casualty insurance, life insurance, retirement solutions and other financial services to customers in approximately 70 countries and jurisdictions. These diverse offerings include products and services that help businesses and individuals protect their assets, manage risks and provide for retirement security. AIG common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

American Century Investments
americancentury.com

American Century Investments is a leading global asset manager focused on delivering investment results and building long-term client relationships while supporting breakthrough medical research. Founded in 1958, American Century Investments’ 1,400 employees serve financial professionals, institutions, corporations and individual investors from offices in New York; London; Frankfurt; Hong Kong; Sydney; Los Angeles; Santa Clara, Calif.; and Kansas City, Mo. Delivering investment results to clients enables American Century Investments to distribute over 40 percent of its dividends to the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, a 500-person, non-profit basic biomedical research organization. The Institute owns more than 40 percent of American Century Investments and has received dividend payments of $1.8 billion since 2000.

BenefitsLink.com
56 Creeksong Road
Whittier NC 28789
Lois Baker, President
David Baker, Editor and Publisher
Ph: 407-644-4146
LoisBaker@benefitslink.com
DaveBaker@BenefitsLink.com
BenefitsLink.com

BenefitsLink daily e-newsletters provide the latest developments and analysis in plan compliance, administration, policy and design – since 1995, we’ve delivered the very best articles to keep you on top of this ever-changing field. Website includes active message boards, industry news and an extensive calendar of conferences and webcasts.

Find – and fill — job openings on our sister site, www.EmployeeBenefitsJobs.com

And be sure to check out our mobile app – now available in the Apple Store and on Google Play.

28,000 Employee Benefits Professionals rely on us to keep them up to date – do you?

Holly Horton, SPARK media sponsor

Benetic, Inc.
benetic.com

Benetic is a technology-powered solution for advisors that brings recordkeepers, asset managers, and other plan service providers together to generate the best plan options quickly and cost effectively.

Benetic
SPARK Associate Member; Conference Exhibitor

Cerulli Associates
699 Boylston St, Ste 11
Boston, Massachusetts 02116
Ph: 617-841-1008
dohearn@cerulli.com
cerulli.com

Headquartered in Boston with fully staffed offices in London and Singapore, Cerulli Associates is a global research and consulting firm that provides financial institutions with guidance in strategic positioning and new business development.

Learn about our recent insights covering the defined contribution (DC) and defined benefit (DB) market, the IRA market, as well as the development and distribution of retail annuity, life, and long-term care products in the United States.

Cerulli Associates
SPARK Forum Exhibitor 2019

DAILYVEST
Tucson, Arizona 85711
Pete McNellis
PH: 520-577-5729, x1
petemcnellis@dailyvest.com
dailyvest.com

DAILYVEST is a fintech data analytics company offering secure data management for plan health reporting & insight. Our configurable solutions are designed for plan sponsors and participants.

Through our recordkeeper partners, DAILYVEST’s solutions are used to analyze participant data for almost 10% of all active U.S. DC plan participants.

DAILYVEST also provides custom investment performance reporting and personal rate of return for participant account access websites.

DAILYVEST
SPARK Associate Member; Conference Exhibitor

GuidedChoice
200 S Virginia St., Suite 310
Reno, NV 89501
John Shupe
Ph: 888-675-4532 x101
jshupe@guidedchoice.com
guidedchoice.com

Founded nearly 20 years ago, GuidedChoice pioneered a more personalized approach to retirement wellness, advice and managed accounts. The company’s “advisor friendly approach” began with the power of online technology. GuidedChoice was among the first to leverage technology to successfully provide a customized and transparent experience to its clients. With over 2 million employees helped through the power of our “easy to use” technology, they decided to expand their offerings. In early 2020, GuidedChoice opened a new division, 3Nickels, to bring holistic financial wellness, advice and managed account solutions to the market. This innovative approach provides anyone with a financial advisor in their pocketSM. Technology has enabled world class personalized advisory solutions to be made available to anyone. Transparency and the culture of integrity is at the center of everything they do. GuidedChoice believes the customer should understand the value of financial products and services that they choose to use.

GuidedChoice
SPARK Associate Member; Conference Exhibitor

IRALOGIX
100 South Commons Alloy 26
Pittsburgh, PA 15212
Ph: 330-328-9627
plittlejohn@iralogix.com
iralogix.com

IRALOGIX provides an IRA recordkeeping platform that makes it possible to cost-effectively support and seamlessly expand your services to IRAs of all account balances. The IRALOGIX platform gives you a competitive edge and enables firms to help more people save for retirement while growing both market share and margins.

Morningstar, Inc.
morningstar.com

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The Company offers an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers and owners, retirement plan providers and sponsors, and institutional investors in the debt and private capital markets. Morningstar provides data and research insights on a wide range of investment offerings, including managed investment products, publicly listed companies, private capital markets, debt securities, and real-time global market data. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries, with approximately $265.0 billion in assets under advisement and management as of March 31, 2022.

PenChecks Trust
8580 La Mesa Blvd
La Mesa, CA 91942
Scott Okrasinski
Ph: 800-541-3938
sokrasinski@penchecks.com
penchecks.com

PenChecks Trust is the largest independent provider of outsourced benefit distribution services and Auto Rollover IRAs. For over 25 years, PenChecks Trust has been helping Plan Sponsors, TPAs, Advisors and Recordkeepers with a suite of unique and comprehensive solutions.

Services include solutions for Benefit Payment Processing, Automatic Rollover IRAs, Plan Termination Outreach, Uncashed Check Resolution, Participant Search, Participant Notifications, & Abandoned Plans / QTA.

Penchecks Trust
SPARK Advisory Board & Conference Sponsor

Raymond James
Don MacQuattie
Don.MacQuattie@RaymondJames.com
raymondjames.com

When Bob James founded Raymond James, he did so based on a belief that clients deserved more than help with investment decisions, they needed advice that considered their entire financial picture.

Today, that client-focused approach has extended to serve client accounts through 8,400 financial advisors in the United States, Canada and overseas. Further, the company has expanded through the years to serve corporations, institutions and municipalities through significant capital markets, banking and asset management services.

No matter the business, we believe if we do what’s right for clients, we’ll help them achieve success while also realizing our own. It’s that simple.

Raymond James
SPARK Advisory Board & Conference Sponsor

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
tcs.com

Tata Consultancy Services is an IT services, consulting and business solutions organization that has been partnering with many of the world’s largest businesses in their transformation journeys for over 50 years. TCS offers a consulting-led, cognitive powered, integrated portfolio of business, technology and engineering services and solutions. This is delivered through its unique Location Independent Agile™ delivery model, recognized as a benchmark of excellence in software development.

TRAU – The Retirement Advisor University
4425 Military Trail – 202
Jupiter, Florida 33458
Fred Barstein
Ph: 561-371-4902
fred@trauniversity.com
trauniversity.com

TRAU in collaboration with UCLA Anderson School of Management Executive Education offer the Certified 401(k) Professional Designation – C(k)P.

The C(k)P Designation represents a significant achievement for professional retirement plan advisors and professionals. This comprehensive and highly specialized certification program requires academic aptitude, real-world experience and application of core competencies. Virtual in Nov 2021, returning to UCLA campus in 2022 Spr/Sum & Fall.

Fred Barstein at SPARK Forum 2019

Voya
voya.com

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