401k Plan Services
Lawton Retirement Plan Consultants, LLC provides a complete menu of 401k plan services for employersEmployee Education
Using educational sessions to motivate participants to contribute and learn about their 401k plan benefits and overall financial wellness.
Fiduciary Compliance
Helping you comply with your ERISA, DoL, Section 404(c), and Qualified Default Investment Alternative fiduciary compliance responsibilities.
Investment Advisory
Providing performance reporting and monitoring services for 401k and non-qualified retirement plans, including fund searches and replacements.
Plan Benchmarking
Reviewing every aspect of your 401k plan's costs. Benchmarking your plan versus your industry and region. Making sure you know how your plan compares to the market and your competitors.
Plan Design
Ensuring your plan design is market competitive and leading edge. Recommending improvements focused on participant retirement readiness. Designing strategies that decrease costs.
Provider Services
Evaluating your service providers versus the market. Ensuring that you are not overpaying. Managing searches to find providers that are the right fit for your unique culture.
Employee Education

401k and Financial Wellness Education
Like many 401k plan sponsors, you may find it difficult to draw your employees into education sessions and motivate them to participate in your plan. Lawton Retirement Plan Consultants, LLC (LRPC) will lead 401k employee education and financial wellness education learning sessions that are tailored to your unique corporate culture and employee demographics.
LRPC has extensive experience managing successful employee education sessions that inspire participants to learn about their 401k plan benefits and improve their financial wellness. The firm will lead group education sessions that are fun and informative, offer one-on-one meeting opportunities to all employees, and provide unlimited phone consultations to employees with questions.
Fiduciary Compliance Education
LRPC can construct an Employee Education Policy Statement for your 401k plan that is goal-oriented and strategic. The firm will share a full range of 401k employee education services that can be customized to fit your employees’ needs. LRPC can also provide fiduciary compliance education to your Investment Committee and help you develop employee communication materials that are effective and easy to understand.
401k Investment Advisory Services

Lawton Retirement Plan Consultants, LLC (LRPC) offers a full menu of 401k investment advisory services to employer plan sponsors, including fund searches and performance monitoring. LRPC produces reports using a report card format and will recommend whether to “Retain,” “Replace,” or move a fund to the “Watch List” for each reporting period. Performance monitoring criteria originate from the Investment Policy Statement, providing a solid link in the fiduciary compliance process.
Over 30,000 Investment Options
LRPC has access to the complete universe of over 30,000 investment choices from more than 750 fund families representing over 100 asset classes. Using 68 unique, objective evaluation criteria, the firm will select, monitor, and report on the investment options in your 401k plan in a manner that helps your plan maintain fiduciary compliance.
LRPC Works for You!
As an independent, objective investment adviser, LRPC does not accept soft-dollar 12b-1 or sub t/a payments from mutual fund companies. Unlike brokers, bankers, and insurance company advisors, the firm has no proprietary investment products, executes no client trades, and holds no client assets. LRPC’s sole motivation is to provide its clients with the best 401k investment advisory services. As a Registered Investment Adviser (RIA), the firm signs on as an ERISA fiduciary to each of the plans it advises.
Fiduciary Compliance
Lawton Retirement Plan Consultants, LLC (LRPC) offers a broad spectrum of 401k fiduciary compliance services. The firm’s goal is to help you completely understand your fiduciary and compliance responsibilities.
401k Fiduciary Compliance Services
- ERISA Section 3(21) fiduciary services
- ERISA Section 404(c) compliance consulting
- Investment Policy Statement (IPS) construction, review, and maintenance
- Investment and administrative expense monitoring and management
- Prohibited transaction avoidance consulting
- Plan records review and maintenance
- Department of Labor (DoL) and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) audit consulting
- Fiduciary compliance audits
- Plan document review and compliance consulting
- Qualified Default Investment Alternative (QDIA) evaluation and compliance consulting
There are many elements involved in 401k fiduciary compliance. LRPC will work with you to implement a tight 401k fiduciary compliance process, helping you achieve the peace of mind that comes from knowing you are doing things right! The firm signs on as an ERISA fiduciary for each of the plans it serves.
Audit Services
If your 401k plan is audited by the IRS or DoL, LRPC can help. Robert C. Lawton, AIF®, CRPS®, has experience working with IRS and DoL auditors and can share his expertise to help navigate this difficult situation.
Plan Design

Lawton Retirement Plan Consultants, LLC (LRPC) will review your current plan design and suggest participant outcome-focused alternatives that may increase participation and/or reduce costs. Innovative and forward-thinking, LRPC can help you maximize the value of the dollars you spend on your retirement program.
Plan Benchmarking

- Investment management fees
- Investment adviser fees
- Administrative/recordkeeping fees
- Participant transaction fees
- Total fees
- The quality of your investment fund lineup
- The diversity of your investment fund lineup
- The competitiveness of your plan design
- The overall complexity of your plan
- Participant success measures
- Your plan’s level of fiduciary compliance
- How effectively your participants have invested in your plan
Provider Services

LRPC can manage a provider search for you, bringing in best-in-class trustees, custodians, and recordkeepers for your review. Robert C. Lawton, AIF®, CRPS®, has more than 30 years of experience working with a broad array of providers in the marketplace. He will determine who the best providers are for your 401k plan. LRPC takes the time to understand your culture and can recommend providers that will work with you in the way you have always wanted.
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