A Little Friday File Fun

In Macedon, New York, police spotted a woman driving erratically around a Walmart parking lot. The 46-year-old told officers she had gotten lost on the way home. Suspecting she was drunk, an officer subjected the woman to a breat.halyzer test. She registered a 0.26. However, she hadn’t been drinking your usual alc.oholic beverages—she had been drinking vanilla extract, which contained 41% alc.ohol. She was arrested and charged with driving while into.xicated.

In Spokane Valley, Washington, two men carrying large garbage bags over their shoulders while walking were stopped by police. The bags contained frozen lamb chops. The men said a woman gave them the food because she was moving, but police followed their footprints in the snow to a home that had been broken into. The resident said the lamb chops were stolen from her freezer. The men were charged with burglary and theft.

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In Cleveland, Ohio, a man boarded a long-delayed flight to New York to find that every other passenger had been rebooked on another flight. According to CNN, he chose an aisle seat near the front of the plane and stretched out. He got a flight attendant to snap pictures of him, with rows of empty seats in the background, and tweeted it. However, the man ended up only getting a semi-private jet; the plane was about to push back when, at the last minute, another man hopped on.

In Coon Rapids, Minnesota, a 60-year-old man called police and reported there might be dead bodies in his house. When officers responded, the man opened the door wielding a large Samurai sword, a 12-inch knife and a long wooden stick with a spear fastened to it. KSTP-TV reports the man eventually put down the weapons and police searched his home. They didn’t find dead bodies, but did find nearly 16 grams of metha.mphetamine.

In Los Angeles, California, police officers approached and questioned two men sitting in a SUV at Venice Beach. When one of the men is asked to step out of the car, a passenger in the back appears to crack saying, “I can’t do this I can’t do this, we have a bunch of coke in the back…it’s not ours we were just bringing it to a friend,” NBC News reports. The officers asked the men to step out of the car and handcuffed them. A search of the trunk, however, turned up numerous sodas covered by a blanket. Commander Andrew Smith of the LAPD was less than impressed. “It is dangerous for the participants involved and a huge waste of a police officer’s time. The public has a right to have their police officers working and not wasting their time responding to juvenile pranks.” The SUV was equipped with cameras on the Dash and in the trunk, and the two men posted the prank on YouTube.

In Largo, Florida, WFTS reported that new rugs ordered for the sheriff’s administration building say “In Dog We Trust” instead of “In God We Trust.” The real kicker is the forest green rugs with the sheriff’s yellow badge were in the entrance area for a couple of months before the error was discovered.

In Kissimmee, Florida, a police officer sought to pull over a gold Acura after the vehicle nearly slammed into his cruiser. The officer activated his car’s overhead lights, but the Acura continued moving. According to The Smoking Gun the officer said that while shining a spotlight on the Acura, “I saw the sun roof of the vehicle open.” Breuer slowed his car down feeling the passenger was going to throw something out of the vehicle. Breuer then watched as the vehicle’s passenger stuck his right hand out of the sunroof. A clear bag come out of the sun roof, flew into the air… and landed on the hood of the police officers car. The bag contained coc.aine. The men finally pulled over and were arrested.

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PLANADVISER Announces 2015 Advisers’ Choice Award Winners

Nine investment and recordkeeping providers will be recognized for their achievement at the annual Awards for Excellence dinner to be held March 31.

PLANADVISER announced the winners of the second annual Advisers’ Choice Awards, to be handed out at its annual PLANSPONSOR/PLANADVISER Awards for Excellence dinner, to be held March 31 at Pier 60 of the Chelsea Piers in New York City.

Nine firms will be honored for their high-ranking performance in four of distinct categories, taken from the eighth annual PLANADVISER Retirement Plan Adviser Survey. More than 600 retirement plan advisers participated in the survey and entered their preferred fund families, investment firms and defined contribution (DC) providers, as well as the mutual funds they most often recommended to their defined contribution plan clients. 

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The firms receiving Advisers’ Choice Awards at the dinner include:

  • American Funds
  • Fidelity Investments
  • Great-West Retirement Services (now Empower)
  • John Hancock Retirement Plan Services
  • J.P. Morgan
  • Principal Financial Group
  • T. Rowe Price
  • Transamerica Retirement Solutions
  • Vanguard

 

The survey results were profiled in the November–December 2014 issue of PLANADVISER magazine and on the Web at https://si-interactive.s3.amazonaws.com/prod/plansponsor-com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/25063358/ResearchStory.aspx_.jpg?id=10737424888.

“The Advisers’ Choice Awards were a great addition to our awards program last year, and we are thrilled to continue this recognition again this year. Advisers’ opinions are a critical component of investment and plan provider service, and we want to make sure these opinions are heard,” says Alison Cooke Mintzer, editor in chief of PLANADVISER and PLANSPONSOR.

Details of the selections are:

Top Fund Families Preferred by Plan Advisers

Rank

Vanguard

1

American Funds

2

T. Rowe Price

3

J.P. Morgan

4

Fidelity Investments

5

  

Top-Rated Investment Firms

Category

J.P. Morgan

Adviser support/value-added services

Fidelity Investments

Participant education materials

Fidelity Investments

Plan participant support

Fidelity Investments

Plan sponsor education materials

Vanguard

Investment value for price

Vanguard

Reputation

Fidelity Investments

Supporting materials

J.P. Morgan

Wholesalers

American Funds

Fund fact sheets

J.P. Morgan

Quarterly evaluation materials

Fidelity Investments

Plan sponsor support

  

Top-Rated DC Providers

Category

Great-West Retirement Services (now Empower)

Best overall service, micro plans

Great-West Retirement Services (now Empower)

Best overall service, small plans

Fidelity Investments

Best overall service, midsize plans

Fidelity Investments

Best overall service, large plans

Fidelity Investments

John Hancock Retirement Plan Services

Best overall service, mega plans

Adviser sales/marketing support

Principal Financial Group

Adviser support, post-sale

Great-West Retirement Services (now Empower)

Fee structure for advisers

John Hancock Retirement Plan Services

Participant education materials

Fidelity Investments

Plan sponsor education materials

Transamerica Retirement Solutions

Plan sponsor support

Fidelity Investments

Supporting materials

Fidelity Investments

Plan participant support

John Hancock Retirement Plan Services

Fidelity Investments

Value-added adviser services

Reputation

Great-West Retirement Services (now Empower)

Best wholesalers

Great-West Retirement Services (now Empower)

Best value for price

Great-West Retirement Services (now Empower)

Overall perception

Fidelity Investments

Overall perception

Transamerica Retirement Solutions

Overall perception

Vanguard

Overall perception

American Funds Distributors

Overall perception

  

Most Recommended Mutual Funds

Rank

Vanguard 500 Index

1

American Funds Euro Pacific Growth

2

T. Rowe Price Target Date Funds

3

J.P. Morgan SmartRetirement Target-Date Funds

4

Vanguard Target Retirement

5

 

 

 

About the PLANSPONSOR/PLANADVISER Awards for Excellence

The PLANSPONSOR/PLANADVISER Awards for Excellence is the annual networking event to celebrate the accomplishments of the best of the best in the retirement plan industry. Each year, the nation’s leading retirement plan sponsors and advisers, as well as the industry’s top product, investment and service providers, are honored at this exclusive gathering, hosted at the beautiful Pier 60 in the Chelsea Pier complex, overlooking the Hudson River. The event will take place on March 31. For more information about the dinner and a list of the winners, visit: www.plansponsor.com/event/PSPAAwards2015.

To learn more about sponsorship or securing a table at the dinner, contact: Mike Garity at 617-943-9661 or mgarity@assetinternational.com.

About PLANADVISER
Through its magazine, website, events and email newsletter, PLANADVISER, an Asset International brand, provides comprehensive industry news, regulatory and investment information, research and training to financial advisers who specialize in the sales, design and administration of institutional qualified and nonqualified retirement plans and executive compensation plans, including 401(k), defined benefit and deferred compensation plans. For more information, visit: www.planadviser.com.


About Asset International
Asset International is a privately-held provider of information and technology to global pension funds, asset managers, financial advisers, banking service providers and other financial institutions in the private and public sectors. Its industry-leading brands include Strategic Insight, SIMFUND, PLANSPONSOR, PLANADVISER, CIO, Global Custodian, The Trade and Plan for Life. The company was acquired in July 2014 by GenStar Capital and has offices in New York; Boston; San Francisco; Toronto; Vancouver; Hong Kong; London; Melbourne, Australia; and Stamford, Connecticut. For more information, visit: www.assetinternational.com.


 

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