Ubiquity 401(k) Pricing vs.
Guideline Pricing
End up with $133,786 more
with Ubiquity
Ubiquity Retirement + Savings is the only firm ranked #1 401(k) provider on Google with 95% Customer Satisfaction!¹. We’ve got your back and we’re going to show you what’s going on behind the 401(k) curtain. The following pricing information compares our plans versus a typical plan offered by Guideline — and is what Guideline does not want you to read.
Our competitors are hiding extra fees in plain sight by making them sound ordinary or innocent. A great example of this is a fee called employee pricing. Sounds innocent enough, right?
But this employee pricing is really a fee based on the total amount of money in your account, a percentage fee. Which means the fee you pay gets bigger as your money grows…which it likely will do, based on how the stock market has performed historically over a 20-30-40-year time period.
In industry jargon, an employee pricing percentage-based fee is really an asset under management (AUM) fee in sheep’s clothing. And it can erode your nest egg in a sneaky way.
Doesn’t sound so friendly and innocent now, does it?
Let’s look at an example of how Guideline’s pricing eats into your 401(k) balance over time – so that at the end of 20, 30, or 40 years, you have less money than you would have if you were able to find a 401(k) provider that charges only a flat fee.
Jennifer and Joshua each have 401(k)s with a value of $50,000. Jennifer’s plan is with Ubiquity Retirement + Savings and her fees are a flat $6/month with an investment expense fee of 0.17%. Joshua’s plan is with Guideline, his annual employee pricing percentage-based fee is 0.08%, his investment fee is 0.30% and his monthly fee is $49/month.
Assuming they don’t contribute another penny to the account, and it grows an average of 10% every year, at the end of 30 years, Jennifer’s Ubiquity account is worth $819,304 with fees of just $15,804.
But Joshua’s Guideline account is only worth $685,518, with fees of $44,763. He’s paying at least 183% higher fees with Guideline pricing than Jennifer is at Ubiquity!
Ubiquity’s flat fees could help you end up with $133,786 more over 30 years vs. a plan like Guideline that charges percentage-based fees.
Ubiquity Flat Fee vs. Guideline’s Percentage-Based Fee Makes a Big Difference
The answer is clear. Flat fees don’t grow over time, unlike employee pricing percentage-based fees / asset under management fees. Be on the lookout for ANY percentage-based participant fees.² These types of fees get bigger the larger your account grows over time and take a bigger chunk out of your retirement money.
You work too hard to be losing out on tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees over the life of your 401(k). So how can you prevent that?
Or schedule a free consultation with a retirement specialist.
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¹ An evaluation has been conducted by Decimal, Inc. through its research of independent customer reviews on Google, Trustpilot, and the Better Business Bureau as reported by unaffiliated contributors on or before September 30, 2022, with a revaluation date on January 12, 2023, resulting in an updated evaluation, for four similar small-business 401(k) providers in the marketplace.
² These fees are separate and different from investment management fees.
Flat fees are charged by Decimal, Inc. for recordkeeping and administrative services. Third-party service providers may assess asset-based fees to customers. Plan Sponsors are advised to review all service agreements with providers (e.g., investment advisors, custodians, broker-dealers) to evaluate total plan costs.
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Do not sell my info
44 Montgomery Street, Suite 300
San Francisco, CA 94104
Support: 855.401.4357