Sponsor Profiles 2023

7 Simple Machines
5429 Russell Ave NW #201
Seattle, Washington 98107
Ph: 206-545-4850
solutions@7simplemachines.com
7simplemachines.com

7 Simple Machines is a passionate band of strategists, software developers, data architects, and designers with decades of experience. We define and build platforms that connect employees to their work and build clarity throughout organizations.

Based in Seattle, 7 Simple Machines builds tools for the retirement professional. We work with recordkeepers, TPAs, and single employers who are looking to efficiently and confidently manage the plans in their portfolios. Our name is inspired by the Greek mathematician, Archimedes, who posited that a few simple machines could act as force multipliers and create most any outcome.

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 2/3 of top recordkeepers use 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, 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

ADP Retirement Services
71 Hanover Park
Florham Park, NJ 07932
adp.com

ADP is a leading retirement plan provider offering a wide range of qualified and nonqualified plan choices tailored to help your employees maximize their benefit. We leverage innovative technology to help drive plan success, manage administrative risk, while creating an engaging experience for your workforce.

From an online plan health dashboard and investment advisory services to our award winning employee education and mobile-enabled solutions, your ADP retirement plan will work hard for you and your employees. Because retirement benefits aren’t just about saving for the future – they are about attracting and retaining a motivated and productive workforce.

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.

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.

Corebridge Financial Inc.
corebridgefinancial.com

Formerly known as AIG Life & Retirement*, Corebridge is now a public company that’s passionate about giving people the power to help reach their financial goals. We are one of the largest providers of retirement solutions and insurance products in the United States. We offer industry-leading tools, engaging experiences and expertise to fuel your success.

We deliver an expansive portfolio of products to serve your unique needs. And we proudly partner with financial professionals and institutions to make it possible for more people to take action in their financial lives for today and tomorrow.

At Corebridge, we believe no one achieves a financially secure future by accident—great things happen when people take action.

For more information, visit corebridgefinancial.com

*AIG Retirement Services is a paid sponsor of The SPARK Institute, Inc. and any display or description of AIG Retirement Services is not an endorsement by The SPARK Institute, Inc. of AIG Retirement Services’ products or services.

dailyVest
Tucson, Arizona 85711
Pete McNellis
Ph: 520-548-7403
petemcnellis@dailyvest.com
dailyvest.com

dailyVest helps recordkeepers and plan advisors boost financial wellness of their retirement plans by leveraging their plan data – all without Personal Information PI. We combine advanced data analytics, intuitive reporting technologies, and easy to use participant email communications tools to drive action and monitor ‘nudge campaign’ results.

dailyVest
SPARK Associate Member; Conference Sponsor

DTCC
dtcc.com

With 50 years of experience, DTCC is the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry. From 20 locations around the world, DTCC, through its subsidiaries, automates, centralizes, and standardizes the processing of financial transactions, mitigating risk, increasing transparency and driving efficiency for thousands of broker/dealers, custodian banks and asset managers. Industry owned and governed, the firm simplifies the complexities of clearing, settlement, asset servicing, data management, data reporting and information services across asset classes, bringing increased security and soundness to financial markets. To learn more, visit dtcc.com.

iJoin

iJoin is personalizing retirement plan success and enabling recordkeepers and advisors to differentiate their offerings with a better approach to enrollment, engagement, communications, and managed accounts. Our philosophy is simple – help every plan participant know their unique retirement funding goal and help them take steps to get on track to long term success.

With iJoin, recordkeepers and advisors can deliver:

• A goal-based enrollment or re-enrollment experience
• A next-generation QDIA / Managed Account Program
• Plan success metrics to share with plan sponsors
• Better ways to engage participants and encourage successful savings behaviors

To be successful in this competitive market, you need better ways to deliver and quantify superior performance. And you need the ability to demonstrate how you help produce better retirement outcomes.

Talk to us about making iJoin an integral component of your solution.

Infosys McCamish Systems
3225 Cumberland Boulevard SE- Suite 700
Atlanta, Georgia 30339
704-942-6307
greg.clark@infosys.com
infosysmccamish.com

Infosys McCamish Systems is a leader in providing best in class technology platforms and service solutions for the financial services industry. Bringing deep domain experience to insurance companies, worksite product providers, and retirement companies globally, we partner with our clients to help them stay ahead of the innovation curve. We provide flexible deployment and delivery models including business process outsourcing, software as a service, and license models. Technology and service platforms including non-qualified deferred compensation combined with execution excellence and proven best practices, optimize our clients’ operations today, while building tomorrow’s enterprise.

Rich Magner, SPARK Advisory Board & Conference Sponsor

LIMRA/LOMA
limra.com
loma.org

LIMRA and LOMA, have for more than a century served as the largest trade associations supporting the insurance and related financial services industry. Today, we’re working with over 700 member companies around the world to help them understand industry trends, inform their strategies, develop their talent, and create solutions that advance the industry.

One of our industry solutions, FraudShare, is one of the more popular fraud prevention tool used by the life industry. Fraudshare was created by the industry for the industry. Since inception, FraudShare has helped to detect more than 500 third-party account takeover incidents targeting more than $145M in account values.

Micruity
micruity.com

Micruity is a financial technology infrastructure company on a mission to improve retirement income utilization in Defined Contribution plans. Through a single secure point of service, Recordkeepers can use Micruity to lower the administrative burden of building out their retirement income tier, to give Plan Sponsors the products their participants need to retire securely. Recordkeepers and Product Manufacturers can connect to Micruity today to access the data connections and participant elections required to power any decumulation solution in the market.

Morningstar, Inc.
morningstar.com

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment insights 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 $246 billion in assets under advisement and management as of Dec. 31, 2022.

NWPS
4025 Delridge Way SW, Suite 250
Seattle, WA 98106
nwpsbenefits.com

NWPS was created in 1994 to provide high-quality service to advisors and their clients and to help employees meet their retirement income needs. We make sponsoring a retirement plan easier by taking on the administration and recordkeeping work for the plan. NWPS works as an extension of your team, caring for the plan in a creative, proactive and practical way.

We offer straightforward and conflict-free pricing independent of fund lineup. We won’t cross-sell services to plan participants – or mine their data.

We have $45 billion in assets under administration across over 1,100 retirement plans servicing over 450,000 participants.

O’Neil Digital Solutions
12655 Beatrice Street
Los Angeles, CA 90066
Ph: 305-434-2560
oneildigitalsolutions

O’Neil Digital Solutions, a division of William O’Neil Companies, has been a recognized leader in data-driven, customer communication services for nearly five decades. Forward-thinking, resourceful, and nimble, O’Neil Digital Solutions specializes in Customer Communication Management (CCM) and provides innovative solutions for Customer Experience Management (CXM) for Retirement Plan Providers, driving behavioral change at both the plan and participant level, increasing participation rates, plan health scores, deferral rates, and appropriate asset allocation. While increasing operational efficiency, driving down the number of templates, and being highly customizable.

O’Neil Digital Solutions
SPARK Advisory Board & Conference Sponsor

Pacific Life
pacificlife.com

For more than 150 years, Pacific Life has helped millions of individuals and families with their financial needs through a wide range of life insurance products, annuities, and mutual funds, and offers a variety of investment products and services to individuals, businesses, and pension plans. Whether your goal is to protect loved ones or grow your assets for retirement, Pacific Life offers innovative products and services that provide value and financial security for current and future generations. Pacific Life counts more than half of the 100 largest U.S. companies as its clients and has been named one of the 2022 World’s Most Ethical Companies by the Ethisphere Institute. For additional company information, including current financial strength ratings, visit pacificlife.com.

PenChecks Trust
8580 La Mesa Blvd, Ste 100
La Mesa, CA 91942
Ph: 480-455-2130
sokrasinski@penchecks.com
penchecks.com

PenChecks Trust is the largest independent provider of outsourced benefit distribution services and Automatic Rollover IRAs for missing and non-responsive participants. For 30 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, Benefit Election Processing, Automatic Rollover IRAs, Plan Termination Outreach, Uncashed Check Resolution, Participant Search, Participant Notifications, & Abandoned Plan/QTA.

Penchecks Trust
SPARK Advisory Board & Conference Sponsor

PGIM
Gateway Center Two
Newark NJ 07102-5008

PGIM, the global asset management business of Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE: PRU), ranks among the top 10 largest asset managers in the world2 with more than $1.5 trillion in assets under management as of Dec. 31, 2021. With offices in 17 countries, PGIM’s businesses offer a range of investment solutions for retail and institutional investors around the world across a broad range of asset classes, including public fixed income, private fixed income, fundamental equity, quantitative equity, real estate and alternatives. For more information about PGIM, visit pgim.com.

Prudential Financial, Inc. (PFI) of the United States is not affiliated in any manner with Prudential plc, incorporated in the United Kingdom, or with Prudential Assurance Company, a subsidiary of M&G plc, incorporated in the United Kingdom. For more information, please visit news.prudential.com.

1 PGIM DC Solutions does not establish or operate pension plans. PGIM DC Solutions is a Delaware limited liability company, a direct wholly owned subsidiary of PGIM Quantitative Solutions LLC, and an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of PGIM, Inc., the principal asset management business of Prudential Financial, Inc. (PFI) of the United States of America. PFI of the United States is not affiliated in any manner with Prudential plc, incorporated in the United Kingdom, or with Prudential Assurance Company, a subsidiary of M&G plc, incorporated in the United Kingdom. PGIM DC Solutions is not currently registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission as an investment adviser. As of the date of this material, PGIM DC Solutions does not manage any assets.

2 Prudential Financial, Inc. (PFI) is the 10th largest investment manager (out of 477 firms surveyed) in terms of global assets under management based on Pensions & Investments’ Top Money Managers list published on May 31, 2021. This ranking represents global assets under management by PFI as of Dec. 31, 2020.

SmartPath
2451 Cumberland Pkwy SE, Suite 3608
Atlanta, GA 30339
Kendra Warlow
Ph: 417-529-5348
kendra@smartpathfinancial.com
SmartPath.com

SmartPath is the leading provider of comprehensive financial education solutions in the country.

T. Rowe Price
4515 Painters Mill Road
Owings Mills, MD 21117
troweprice.com

INVEST WITH CONFIDENCE® T. Rowe Price is an asset management firm focused on delivering global investment management excellence and retirement services that investors can rely on—now, and over the long term.

We provide an array of commingled funds, subadvisory services, separate account management, retirement recordkeeping, and related services for individuals, advisors, institutions, and retirement plan sponsors.

Our intellectual rigor helps us seek the best ideas for our clients, our integrity ensures that we always put their interests first, and our stability lets us stay focused on their goals as we pursue better investment outcomes.

As of June 30, 2021, T. Rowe Price has more than USD $1.62 trillion in assets under management and serves clients in 49 countries worldwide.

TRAU – The Retirement Advisor University
4514 Main Street, # 1036
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

Premier Workforce Solutions
40 S Palafox Place, Suite 200
Pensacola, FL 32502
Ph: 877-748-8282
info@premierworkforcesolutionsllc.com

Premier Workforce Solutions, LLC is an HR Consulting Group specializing in strategic solutions for companies in a diverse array of industries. We create scalable, customized, affordable HR solutions that work to help you retain and attract top talent.

As a strategic partner, we work closely with clients to empower their businesses to grow by turning complex challenges into opportunities that can create a competitive advantage.

Women in Pension Network (WiPN)
womeninpensionsnetwork.org

WE | Inspire | Promote | Network

WIPN — WE | Inspire | Promote | Network — advances equity and opportunity for women in the retirement industry.

WE

1. Inspire each other to achieve our professional goals and personal aspirations, especially through our local chapters nationwide.
2. Promote diversity, equity and inclusion throughout the retirement industry.
3. Network to support each other’s professional and personal growth by sharing our knowledge and experience, informed by research.