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401k Generation Inc

At 401k Generation, we are more than just a financial services firm.

Building confidence for your financial future by enhancing 401k plans across America by simplifying their understanding and use for plan sponsors and participants. We are dedicated educators, guides, and assistants, committed to helping our clients achieve their financial goals for a brighter tomorrow. We provide high-touch customer service with dedicated and live support, access to low-fee invest

ment options, model portfolios tailored to various risk tolerance levels, and fiduciary protection for plan sponsors that minimizes their fiduciary responsibility.

401(k) plans are not part of our business, they are our business! Backed by years of experience, 401k Generation specializes in 401(k) administration, financial advising, and investment management. Our focus is on providing tailored, strategic solutions that cater to each client's unique needs and goals. In addition to being able to give you independent, unbiased advice in customizing your organization’s plan, 401K Generation’s alliances and partnerships provide a depth of resources and knowledge that can help plan sponsors and participants achieve their financial goals for retirement.

09/02/2026

Five things every 401(k) plan sponsor should check before Q4 starts. 15 minutes now, easier renewal season later.

1. Contribution testing. Is your third-party administrator on schedule for annual nondiscrimination testing? If they haven't given you a preliminary result by end of September, that's a red flag.

2. Fund menu review. Has your investment committee formally reviewed the fund lineup this quarter? Documentation matters here — a signed review protects you if the DOL ever asks.

3. Beneficiary designations. Not for the plan, for your executives specifically. Life events (marriage, divorce, births, deaths) in the last 12 months rarely trigger the reminder to update. Prompt your team to check.

4. Committee minutes. Are your fiduciary committee minutes documented and filed? "We meet quarterly" without documentation is the same as not meeting from a compliance standpoint.

5. Q4 participant education. Do you have enrollment / education meetings scheduled for open enrollment season? Getting on your provider's calendar in September is easier than October.

Educational content for plan sponsors — save and share with your benefits team.

For broader financial planning conversations — your own wealth, retirement, or estate picture — that's our wheelhouse. Connect with us anytime.

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5 things for plan sponsors to check before Q4:

1. Contribution testing on schedule
2. Fund menu review documented
3. Beneficiary designations current
4. Committee minutes filed
5. Q4 participant education scheduled

Save this and share with your benefits team.

09/01/2026

September is when smart pre-retirees start modeling Roth conversions. By December, the runway to actually execute one is gone.

Here's why September specifically:

You have real YTD income numbers. Not estimates. Not projections. Real.

You still have time to coordinate with your CPA before Q4 tax planning conversations get crowded out by year-end deadlines.

You can execute in tranches — convert a portion now, model another in November, adjust based on what income actually does through year-end.

You have room to handle IRMAA implications. Roth conversions push income up, which can push Medicare premiums into higher tiers two years later. Modeling in September lets you stay under thresholds intentionally, not by accident.

The math is clearest for people in their late 50s and early 60s who have meaningful pre-tax balances and low current-year taxable income (post-employment, pre-Social Security, pre-RMDs). That's the Roth conversion window — and it's more valuable than most portfolios reflect.

If you're in that window and haven't modeled this year's conversion, contact us. We do this modeling for wealth clients.

Educational. Not personal tax or financial advice.

08/27/2026

September is when comprehensive wealth reviews get harder. Every year, without fail.

Here's what happens:

Early September: Kids back in school. Work returns to full pace after summer. Q3 close pressure begins. Estate attorneys and CPAs come back from summer slowdown to a full inbox. Bandwidth narrows.

Late September: Q4 planning conversations begin. Every advisor and every CPA has "let's do this in Q4" conversations queued up. Calendars fill fast.

October: Deadlines start compressing. Tax planning has to be actioned within weeks. Roth conversion modeling has to be complete.

November: Holiday travel begins. Half of the professionals you'd need are out. Real conversations get harder to have.

December: The year is closing. Every review conversation becomes "let's revisit in January." Some things (Roth conversions, tax-loss harvesting, RMDs, QCDs) can't wait for January.

The August window we've been referencing since July? It closes late this month.

If you've been intending to sit down for a real wealth conversation — investment review, tax strategy, estate coordination, retirement income modeling — the next two weeks are when it's cleanest to start. By mid-September the calendar reality changes.

We do intro wealth conversations any time. But August into early September is the least-friction window we'll have all year.

If you've been meaning to schedule and haven't — connect with us this week.

08/26/2026

A common expensive pattern we see across high-earning households: over-optimization at 40, under-planning at 55.

The pattern:

At 40, people obsess over portfolio optimization. Which funds. Which allocation. Which rebalancing rule. What to add to bring the Sharpe ratio up 0.1. It feels productive because it's tangible. Numbers to compare. Decisions to make.

At 55, the same people quietly under-plan the harder problems. What's the withdrawal sequence? What's the Social Security claiming strategy? What's the healthcare gap from 60 to 65? How do we handle Roth conversions in the low-income years? What's our long-term care plan? What are we actually leaving to the next generation?

The math is upside down. Portfolio optimization at 40 might add 0.1-0.3% per year to your returns — meaningful over 30 years, but marginal in any given year. The planning decisions at 55 can shift lifetime after-tax wealth by 20% or more, depending on the specifics.

Where do people put their time and attention? Overwhelmingly, the first thing.

The reframe:

At 40, the important question isn't "am I optimally invested?" It's "am I saving enough, and is my time horizon right?" Get those two answered and stop over-fiddling.

At 55, the important question isn't "am I optimally invested?" (still — allocation matters, but it's not the highest-leverage decision). It's "am I making the right sequencing decisions on income, tax, and estate that compound over the next 30-40 years?"

If you're 45-60 and you've been optimizing the wrong thing, this isn't a criticism. It's a reframe of where the highest-leverage decisions actually live at this stage.

If you'd like to move the focus of your planning to the questions that actually matter here, DM us.

Educational. Not personal financial advice.

08/25/2026

Four conversations most families never have about money — and the cost of avoiding each:

1. What are we trying to leave, and to whom?

Not "we'll figure it out later." A concrete conversation about intent, in numbers, in writing. This drives every downstream planning decision — the tax strategy, the trust structure, the beneficiary designations, the gifting sequence. Without it, everything downstream is guessing.

2. What happens if one of us needs long-term care?

Long-term care costs are the single largest untracked risk in most retirement plans. National average for skilled nursing care is over $100,000/year. Home care can approach that. Most families don't plan for it because the conversation is uncomfortable. Not planning for it is planning to force your children to make the decision under pressure — often with the family finances as the constraint.

3. If we passed today, does the family know what to do?

Location of documents. Access to accounts. Who to call first. What the plan is. If your adult children (or your spouse) can't answer these from memory, no one has actually communicated the plan. Documented plans that no one can find or execute aren't plans.

4. What are our values around money — and how do we want them to show up?

Drives everything from gifting strategy to charitable planning to how much education vs. how much responsibility to pass to the next generation. Often the most important conversation. Almost never had. The families we've worked with who did this conversation deliberately — the outcomes were categorically different from the families who didn't.

None of these conversations require an advisor to be in the room. But most families we work with have them for the first time after they start working with us — because we build a structure that makes them possible.

If any of these four are the conversation you've been avoiding, DM us. Sometimes the most valuable thing a wealth advisor does isn't manage the portfolio — it's create the container for the conversation.

08/19/2026

Four places high-income earners consistently leave tax value on the table. If your household income is over $200K, at least one of these applies to you:

1. Not doing the Backdoor Roth (or Mega Backdoor Roth) when eligible.

The Backdoor Roth (nondeductible Traditional IRA contribution → Roth conversion) is a workaround for the Roth income limits. The Mega Backdoor Roth (after-tax 401(k) contributions → in-plan Roth conversion or in-service distribution) can add $30,000+ per year of Roth-treated retirement savings for eligible plans. Most people who could do this — don't.

2. Not coordinating asset location.

Which investments live in which account type matters more than most portfolios reflect. High-turnover, high-tax-drag assets belong in tax-deferred accounts. Tax-efficient index funds and long-hold positions belong in taxable. Bonds — depending on your bracket — might belong in tax-deferred rather than taxable. Most portfolios are structured for asset ALLOCATION but not asset LOCATION. The difference compounds over decades.

3. Not front-loading HSAs.

If you have a high-deductible health plan and haven't front-loaded the HSA, invested the balance, and paid current medical expenses out of pocket — you're using the HSA as a checking account instead of a retirement account.

4. Not planning Roth conversions in low-income years.

The early 60s (post-work, pre-Social Security, pre-RMDs) are usually the lowest-income years of the entire retirement lifecycle. That's the Roth conversion window. Miss it and every dollar in your Traditional IRA gets taxed at higher rates in RMD years and beyond.

Any one of these can be worth thousands per year. Together, they compound into meaningful lifetime tax savings for high earners.

If your current advisor isn't proactively working on all four with you, that's a real gap.

DM us if you want to talk about whether your tax setup is optimized.

Educational. Not personal tax or financial advice. Past performance does not guarantee future results.

08/18/2026

Five things to check on your 401(k) before Q4 starts — 15 minutes now, easier decisions later.

1. Contribution rate. Are you capturing the full employer match? This is the single highest-leverage 401(k) move most people don't optimize. If your employer matches 100% of the first 4% and you're contributing 2%, you're leaving free money on the table every paycheck.

2. Investment mix. Is your allocation matched to your time horizon? If you're 35 and 50% of your 401(k) is in a stable value fund because you set it up in 2015 and never revisited it, you may be under-allocating to growth for your actual runway. If you're 60 and 80% in aggressive growth funds, you may be over-allocating for what's coming.

3. Beneficiary. When did you last update it? Life changes — marriage, divorce, births, deaths — often don't prompt the "update your 401(k) beneficiary" moment. The beneficiary designation overrides your will. Take five minutes.

4. Vesting. Do you know what portion of your employer's contributions you'd actually take with you if you left in the next 12 months? Matters if a job change is on the horizon.

5. Statements. Are you actually reading them? Not just the balance — the fee disclosure, the fund performance, the plan changes. Most 401(k) participants haven't opened a quarterly statement in 3+ years. That's normal. It's also expensive.

Educational content for 401(k) participants — save and share with anyone who might benefit.

For broader financial planning conversations — your own retirement strategy, IRA rollovers, family wealth picture — that's our wheelhouse. DM us anytime.

Educational. Not personal financial advice.

08/13/2026

The most successful family wealth transitions we've seen have one thing in common.

They started talking about it — before they had to.

The families where transitions go well don't have more money. They don't have better advisors. They don't have more sophisticated estate plans. What they have is a documented conversation history: parents talking with adult children about money, about intentions, about the "why" behind the plan — often for a decade before anything transferred.

The families where transitions go badly — where trusts get contested, where siblings stop speaking, where generational wealth evaporates in three years — usually share a different pattern: silence. Parents who "didn't want to burden the kids." Kids who "didn't want to ask." Documents drafted in one office, decisions made in another, no one talking to each other about what any of it means.

The technical planning matters. So does the estate attorney, the tax structure, the trust language. But those are downstream of a conversation.

We work with families on both sides — helping parents have the conversation for the first time, and helping adult children navigate the transition when parents didn't.

If money conversations feel off-limits in your family, we can help open them. That's not a substitute for the technical planning — it's the foundation that makes the technical planning actually work.

DM us to start the conversation. Or send this to someone in your family who might be avoiding it.

08/12/2026

Your Social Security claiming decision is worth six figures — sometimes more — over your lifetime. Most people spend 15 minutes deciding.

The three claiming ages are not equal:

Age 62: earliest claim. Permanently reduces your monthly benefit by roughly 30% vs. Full Retirement Age.

Full Retirement Age (67 for people born 1960 or later): full calculated benefit, no reduction.

Age 70: delayed retirement credits add 8% per year between FRA and 70. Claim at 70 and you receive ~124% of your FRA benefit — permanently.

The right age depends on your specific situation. Some of the factors most people miss:

→ Spousal and survivor benefits change the calculus significantly for married couples. The higher earner delaying to 70 often maximizes lifetime household benefits — because the surviving spouse inherits the higher benefit.

→ Working while claiming (before FRA) triggers the earnings test, potentially withholding benefits. This surprises people.

→ Social Security is taxable, and the taxation phases in at income thresholds that haven't been adjusted for inflation since 1993. Rising benefits push more of your Social Security into taxable territory.

→ The break-even analysis (claim early vs. late) assumes you die at the expected age. Planning for the median isn't planning — it's assuming.

If you're within 5 years of Social Security eligibility and haven't run a proper claiming analysis, DM us. This is one of the wealth conversations we have most often.

Educational. Not personal financial advice. Past performance does not guarantee future results.

08/06/2026

Five questions your financial team should be able to answer together — advisor, accountant, estate attorney.

If only one of them can confidently answer each, coordination is broken. And in most families we work with, at least three of the five have gaps.

1. What's the tax impact of a $50K Roth conversion this year?

Spans investment advisor (source account, replacement strategy), accountant (marginal rate, IRMAA impact), estate attorney (beneficiary implications). Requires all three.

2. Are our beneficiary designations aligned with the estate plan?

Retirement account beneficiaries override the will. If the advisor and the estate attorney aren't talking, the estate plan may not actually reflect your intent.

3. What's the cost basis on assets we might gift or bequeath?

Basis determines whether "gift now" or "bequeath later" is the right strategy. Accountant tracks it, advisor holds it, estate attorney sequences it.

4. If one spouse passed today, does the survivor know where everything is?

Advisor knows the accounts. Estate attorney knows the documents. Family knows... hopefully all of it. Usually not.

5. Who is responsible for making sure this still works next year?

Correct answer is not "our advisor" or "our attorney." It's a coordinated review across all three, with quarterly touchpoints. That structure rarely exists in most families we meet — but it's what we help build.

Coordination is one of the highest-leverage services in wealth management, and one of the least discussed. If your team hasn't sat down together (with you) in the last 18 months, DM us.

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