MANAGED GOVERNANCE SERVICE

Your plan's governance process, run for you and documented for you.

Perseptiv acts as your plan's independent system of record: one place for the plan's decisions, documents and data. We do the recurring work behind your committee's process, so the process is consistent and the record is complete.

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THE PROBLEM

No one is responsible for the whole picture except your committee.

Your advisor, recordkeeper, TPA and auditor each are responsible for their own job. Committee members have other jobs. Over time, the plan's history ends up spread across providers' reports, portals and inboxes.

HOW IT WORKS

A steady annual rhythm.

01

Onboard

We gather your plan documents, contracts and history, and set up your portal.

02

Quarterly refresh

Each quarter, we update plan vitals, benchmarks and investment monitoring.

03

Annual service provider due diligence

Once a year, we review every service provider on your plan.

04

Rotating RFP

We run one search a year, rotating across your advisor, recordkeeper and auditor. A search is a market check, not a commitment to switch.

WHAT YOUR COMMITTEE RECEIVES

A managed service: we run the system, your committee makes the decisions.

Governance portal

An account for every committee member, updated each quarter.

Quarterly refresh

Plan vitals, fee and plan design benchmarks, and investment monitoring.

Annual provider review

Findings for every service provider, with a Retain, Monitor or Replace decision.

One search a year

A documented RFP, rotating across your advisor, recordkeeper and auditor.

Decision history

Decisions and the information reviewed, pulled from your minutes and linked back to them.

WHO DOES WHAT

Your committee decides. Perseptiv documents the process.

Your committee

Makes every decision
  • Sets priorities and approves the plan for the year
  • Decides Retain, Monitor or Replace for each provider
  • Selects providers after a search
  • Approves findings, policies and minutes

Perseptiv

Runs the process and keeps the record
  • Gathers documents, disclosures and plan data
  • Runs annual reviews and the rotating search
  • Benchmarks fees and plan design
  • Keeps the record and tracks follow-ups

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INDEPENDENT OVERSIGHT

An independent set of eyes on everyone who touches your plan.

Your advisor, recordkeeper, TPA and auditor are responsible for their own piece. No one is responsible for the whole picture except your committee.

Perseptiv doesn't replace any of them. We bring their work together, check it against each other and the market, and surface what your committee needs to know, fully on your side.

Connect

Reports, fee disclosures and findings from every provider, in one place.

Question

Fees, service and performance checked against benchmarks and what each provider committed to.

Troubleshoot

We help figure out what happened and who needs to fix it.

Sounding board

Someone independent to think a decision through with before your committee makes it.

We don't replace any of your providers and we don't give investment or legal advice.

OWNERSHIP

We document the process. You own the record.

Most of a plan's fiduciary history lives with its providers: in your advisor's reports, your recordkeeper's portal, someone's inbox. When a provider changes, much of it goes with them. Perseptiv keeps the record with the plan: every provider review, fee benchmark, search and committee decision, in one place that belongs to the sponsor, whoever your providers are.

When your advisor changes

Your history, fee data and decisions stay with the plan, not the provider.

When your recordkeeper changes

The search, the comparison and the reasoning behind the decision are on record.

When your committee changes

New members can see what was decided, what it was based on, and why.

Committees turn over. The reasoning shouldn't.

People rotate off committees, HR leaders move on, and advisors and recordkeepers change. The decisions stay in force, but the reasons behind them often leave with the people who made them. Perseptiv records each decision with the information it was based on and any follow-ups, so a new member, a new HR leader or a new auditor can see how the plan got here without relying on anyone's memory.

Decision history
What was decided, when and why.
Supporting materials attached
Minutes, reports and proposals kept with the decision they informed.
One place to read it
A new member can follow the history of every major decision without asking around.
BUILT FOR

The people responsible for the plan.

Retirement plan sponsors carry fiduciary responsibility under ERISA. Perseptiv supports the committees and teams who carry it for 401(k) and 403(b) plans.

Plan committees

A consistent process for every provider decision, and a record that shows how each one was made.

HR and benefits leaders

The recurring work behind your governance process handled, without adding it to your team's workload.

Finance leaders

A clear view of what the plan pays, and whether it's competitive.

Legal and compliance

An audit-ready record, kept by a party with no stake in any provider.

EXPLORE THE SERVICE

What the managed service includes.

Governance portal

Your plan's system of record, kept current by us.

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Annual due diligence

A yearly review of every provider serving your plan, prepared for your committee.

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RFP management

Service provider searches run end to end, on a consistent and documented basis.

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RELATED READING
DOCUMENTATION

What “audit-ready” means for a plan committee

Minutes, fee reviews and provider monitoring: what a reviewer expects to see, and the gaps that are easy to leave.

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We'll show you where Perseptiv fits.

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