Retirement Industry People Moves

DATAIR Hires ERISA Consultant for Document Compliance

Amy Cavanaugh has joined DATAIR Employee Benefit Systems as an ERISA Consultant in the Document Services area. With experience in the industry spanning back to 1979, she specializes in document compliance. She has worked for several document providers as well as large consulting firms like Willis Towers Watson and financial institutions such as Putnam Investments. She has also provided consulting services to small and mid-sized third-party administrators (TPAs).

Cavanaugh is a frequent author and public speaker on topics such as Prevailing Wage Retirement Plans. She also is the former author of the Coverage and Non-Discrimination Answer Book. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Jacksonville University and studied ERISA Plans at the Institute for Paralegal Training in Philadelphia.

“We are thrilled to welcome such a tremendous talent to our team, especially as we start preparing for the next restatement period,” says DATAIR President Aaron Venouziou.

NEXT: Retirement LLC Acquires Summit Group TPA Division

Retirement LLC Acquires Summit Group TPA Division

Retirement LLC announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to purchase the third party administrator (TPA) division of Summit Group, based in Oklahoma City. The transaction closed on April 1, 2017.

Summit Group offers plan design consulting, recordkeeping, administration and compliance services for retirement plans of all sizes.

"The addition of Summit Group further expands our market share in Oklahoma and across the United States while adding an experienced client services team that understands the complex TPA retirement business. This acquisition adds significant strategic value to the future growth of our organization” says Dana Hagen, president/CEO of Retirement LLC.

The move marks the firm’s fourth acquisition in the past four years. Gay Williams, Summit Group vice president says, “We have a commitment to our clients to provide extremely high service levels that meet all of their needs. We will continue to grow and now have a national platform to add more business without compromising the quality of the service for our clients.”

NEXT: QBI Grows Actuarial Team

QBI Grows Actuarial Team

Retirement plan design firm QBI announced it is expanding its actuarial team by welcoming three new employees. Steven Singer, Dan Jock and Justin Greindl will join current actuaries Gary Mevorah, Michael Burkow and Nathan Gasaway. 

Singer comes to the firm with decades of experience in the industry. For the last 27 years, he ran his own consulting actuary business.

Jock, who will be serving part-time, has been running his own business Cornerstone Retirement Plan Advisors for the past decade. Greindl, who will be serving on a contractual basis, has spent the last 12 years working with large corporate employee benefit firms and small boutique third-party administrator (TPA) firms.

In addition, two defined benefit (DB) consultants have joined QBI in its Woodland Hills and Irvine offices.

"We have a great team of talented and conscientious individuals,” says Gary Mevorah, QBI’s senior actuary. “In my 25 plus years in the pension actuarial field, being able to lead and work with this group has been the most gratifying experience of my career. QBI and our actuarial team are going in a great direction and we look forward to sharing our retirement plan expertise for many years to come.”

The firm notes the expanded actuarial and consulting team supports QBI’s clients on a broad range of services ensuring that they are in compliance with the law, calculating employers' liabilities for their defined benefit pension plans and determining contributions to be made to their plans.