Enhancements 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' innovations and advancements

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.

Campaigns to boost enrollment and savings

Drive stronger enrollment and increased savings rates with our new, timely, personalized campaigns—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.

2024 Retirement Leader of the Year 2024 With Intelligence Mutual Fund & ETF Awards

Advisors

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.

Coming soon

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.

Coming soon

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.

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

Plan Sponsors

Improve plan oversight with an enhanced dashboard that features a multi-plan view.

Make tax reporting more convenient with online 1099Rs.

Assess and improve plan performance with a customizable Plan Health Report.

Boost efficiency with additional self-service compliance and payroll capabilities.

Participants

Manage accounts on the go with more online and in-app capabilities.

Easily evaluate investment information with refreshed Morningstar fund factsheets.

Plan for the future with My Forecast, a robust retirement outcome calculator designed to enhance retirement readiness.

Access more resources in Spanish.

Advisors

Gain a comprehensive view of your client relationships with streamlined plan monitoring and centralized management of investment lineups.

Explore refreshed Morningstar fund factsheets with a new design that's easier for clients to understand.

Access ongoing brand and business building tools, templates, and resources.

Product and service availability can depend on plan type and/or approval with your firm.

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