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RIABiz
Apr. 16, 2014
"[T]he ultimate proof that BrightScope may finally have gotten on track to a bright future as a data company are late developments about who is seeking the better data that it sells -- the 401(k) providers and recordkeepers themselves. The firm has 25 enterprise clients described as recordkeepers and asset managers who want BrightScope, Inc. to clean up their fragmented data making it cleaner and easier to read. They also want BrightScope to help them use the data to increase sales. By the end of the year, BrightScope hopes to have 40 of these big clients[.]"
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BrightScope
Dec. 22, 2010
"BrightScope's Top 30 list comprises large 401k plans with high overall quality, as measured by the BrightScope Rating. The BrightScope Rating measures how effective a 401k plan is at getting its participants to retirement."
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BrightScope and Investment Company Institute [ICI]
Mar. 4, 2025
80 pages; Mar. 2025. "More than half of large 401(k) plans in the sample ... reported that they automatically enrolled their participants ... 88 percent of large 401(k) plans, covering more than nine out of 10 401(k) participants, had employer contributions.... In 2022, the average large 401(k) plan offered 29 investment options ... CITs held 43 percent of large private-sector 401(k) plan assets in the sample in 2022.... In 2022, the average total plan cost was 0.85 percent of assets, down from 1.02 percent in 2009."
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RIABiz
June 11, 2015
"BrightScope launched Fund Pages, which provides inflow and outflow information. But in addition, and ... unlike Morningstar, it will list the retirement plans that are most heavily invested in each mutual fund. Which retirement plans are invested in which funds is important information that's not been available to advisors for free before ... BrightScope's new offering is a scorecard laying out each fund's flows, manager turnover, fees and additional information[.]"
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BrightScope
Dec. 16, 2013
"Which traits define the plans that make the Top 30 Plans List? [1] Generous Company Contributions ... [2] Immediate Plan Eligibility: ... [3] Immediate Vesting: ... [4] Low Fees: ... [5] High Participation Rates: ... [6] Salary Deferral."
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PLANSPONSOR
May 4, 2011
The data that underlaid Brightscope's computations was drawn from government files ? and while that made it 'official', it apparently didn't always mean it was accurate, and it surely didn't make it timely (though the latter is getting better all the time).
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RIABiz
May 3, 2011
BrightScope executives say they will stay the course in their plan to make data about 450,000 financial advisors accessible, even though the company's publication of the data and plans to profit from it are angering some advisors and industry observers.
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BrightScope
Aug. 25, 2010
4 pages.
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The Washington Post; subscription may be required
Jan. 19, 2010
"San Diego based BrightScope, recently launched to help people navigate their 401k retirement plans and ... to maximize the benefits. Today, the startup is launching its Personal 401k Fee Report that will let participants [figure] out exactly how much they are paying in fees in their specific plan."
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Financial Planning
Dec. 8, 2009
Excerpt: Lockheed Martin, Southwest Airlines and Bayer were acknowledged as among the top 401(k) plan providers when it comes to fee structures, company generosity, participation rates, salary deferrals, and other factors, according to a survey. On Tuesday BrightScope, a provider of independent retirement plan ratings and investment research, released its first year-end 401(k) Top 30 ratings list covering plans with more than $1 billion in assets. The BrightScope rating measures how effective a 401(k) plan is at getting its participants to retirement.
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