Innovation to deliver ease in 2025
You have the power to make a difference for your clients and savers every day. But you can't do it all. That's why you need a partner committed to easing retirement plan complexity. Our latest enhancements are designed to be intuitive for you, your clients and prospects, and participants. This is your go-to resource to see how we are enhancing the experience.
Ascensus' latest innovations and advancements
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Plan Sponsors
Enriched payroll experience
Enhance your clients' payroll experience with proactive, instant validation and feedback, improving first-time accuracy and timely funding. In addition, more payroll integration options are available for greater flexibility and efficiency.
Digital-first onboarding approach
Reduce onboarding time and enhance the client experience with a real-time view of plan status throughout the process until the plan goes live.
Robust administrative capabilities
Empower your clients with the ability to view, edit, and add plan contacts, including identification of their role. This enhanced functionality enables better direct communication and streamlines plan management.
Year-end reporting enhancements
Elevate the client year-end experience with new capabilities such as a digital tool for calculating annual employer contributions, a streamlined Form 5500 process, improved compliance testing, and clear category eligibility.
Streamlined communications and flexibility
Equip clients with the flexibility they need to achieve their plan goals with enhanced, targeted transactional and operational communications, along with improved plan capabilities and design features.
3(16) Administrative Fiduciary Services
Simplify compliance for clients with our comprehensive fiduciary services for fully bundled plans. We prepare and sign the Form 5500, delivering a truly seamless client experience.
Participants
Powerful digital tools and experiences
Enhance your advisory services with new digital tools and engaging experiences for savers. These tools encourage them to start sooner, take control of their financial wellness, and achieve better outcomes for the future.
Boosting enrollment and savings with campaigns and reenrollment
Drive stronger enrollment and increased savings rates with our new, timely, personalized campaigns and reenrollment capabilities—designed to help more savers stay on track to meet their financial goals.
Streamlined transactions
Make the savings experience faster and more efficient by replacing paper or manual forms with online, automated transactions—enabling savers to quickly submit requests and easily manage their plan.
More functionality on the go
Empower clients and savers with the READYSAVETM mobile app and single sign-on, providing them with an integrated financial wellness experience through Financial Finesse. They’ll benefit from enhanced retirement modeling within My Forecast, additional transactional capabilities, and a comprehensive multi-plan view.
Growth
Simplified onboarding through a digital-first approach
Easily track your clients’ progress in real-time during the onboarding process—making it more convenient to monitor and expediate setup while ensuring a smooth experience for your clients.
Resources to evaluate plan providers
Enhance your client relationships and boost their confidence in retirement planning with curated resources designed to help them understand the diverse offerings of retirement plan providers—ensuring they make well-informed plan decisions.
Comprehensive prospecting toolkit
Maximize your outreach and drive results with ready-made resources for a 2-month marketing campaign. Whether you’re targeting existing plan sponsors or those without a plan, our tools can help you effectively connect with your target audience to achieve your goals.
Timely insights
Gain a comprehensive view of competitive rewards programs, including compensation, retirement, and employee health and welfare benefits with the Compensation, Retirement, and Benefits Trends Report. The 2024/2025 edition features insights from nearly 800 organizations across industries, geographies, and sizes.
Enhanced SECURE 2.0 calculator
Help clients maximize their savings by exploring the tax credits available when they sponsor a qualifying retirement plan. In addition to first-year credits, the start-up credit and auto-enrollment credit may be available for an additional two years, and the employer contribution credit may be available for an additional four years.
2024 Retirement Leader of the Year
2024 With Intelligence Mutual Fund & ETF Awards
Enhance your practice and manage the unique needs that come with scale.
Recent enhancements to power success
Check out the notable innovations and enhancements we delivered in 2024 for you, your clients, and their savers.
15+ million savers
Serving more than 15 million savers and more than 250,000 retirement plans
30+ industry awards
Honored with more than 30 industry awards for excellence
Product and service availability can depend on plan type and/or approval with your firm.
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