SAN DIEGO, CA — (Marketwire) — 07/05/12 — BrightScope (), a leading provider of independent financial information and investment research, today announced its second annual list of the top Portland area-based companies with the highest ranked 401k plans containing more than $100 million in assets. This year BrightScope has extended the list to include the top 25 companies.
BrightScope obtains an increasing amount of its data directly from plan sponsors and record keepers, and augments these primary sources with data from publicly available sources such as the Department of Labor and the Securities and Exchange Commission. By analyzing and interpreting this data, BrightScope provides unprecedented transparency into the 401k industry.
“Portland should be proud of the variety of companies present on this year-s list because it shows that any company, in any industry, can create a strong and effective 401k plan for its employees,” said Dan Weeks, founder and COO of BrightScope. “As we release each of these lists, we hope that other companies will be motivated to ask for positive changes to their existing 401k plans in an effort to achieve a successful retirement.”
Noteworthy findings in the 2012 Top 25 Portland Area-Based 401k Plans list include:
All of the previously top ten ranked companies appear again among the top 15 on this year-s list, except for previously ranked No. 2, Tektronix 401k Plan, which did not make a second appearance due to its new headquarter location in Washington, D.C.
Salem Health Retirement Plan changed its name to Salem Hospital Retirement Plan due to their EIN change and falls two spots from 10th to 12th place
First place plan Oregon Anesthesiology Group, P.C. held its rank this year
Stoel Rives LLP, Northwest Permanente, P.C., make first appearances on the list as No. 2, No. 3 and No. 4 respectively
Rounding out the list are first time participants like Oregonian Publishing Company LLC, Con-way Inc., A-dec, Inc. and Adidas America, Inc., among others
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1. Oregon Anesthesiology Group, P.C. – – 92.66
2. Stoel Rives LLP – – 88.07
3. Northwest Permanente, P.C. – – 86.91
4. Northwest Permanente, P.C. – – 83.78
5. PacifiCorp – – 81.47
6. Mentor Graphics Corporation – – 80.55
7. Portland General Electric – – 80.30
8. FLIR Systems, Inc. – – 77.96
9. Northwest Natural Gas Company – – 76.32
10. StanCorp Financial Group, Inc. – – 75.39
11. TriQuint Semiconductor, Inc. – – 74.34
12. Salem Health – – 74.24
13. Hoffman Corporation – – 74.19
14. The Regence Group – – 73.04
15. NIKE, Inc. – – 72.02
16. Oregonian Publishing Company LLC – – 70.99
17. Con-way Inc. – – 70.71
18. Detroit Diesel Corporation – – 70.25
19. ESCO Corporation – – 69.91
20. Daimler Trucks North America L.L.C. – – 69.80
21. Cascade Pension Trust Board of Trustees – – 68.54
22. A-dec, Inc. – – 67.29
23. Blount International, Inc. – – 65.89
24. Precision Castparts Corp. – – 65.11
25. Adidas America, Inc. – – 63.53
BrightScope-s 401k plan Rating was developed by BrightScope, Inc. with the help of leading academics and independent 401k fiduciaries. Analyzing more than 200 individual data points, the BrightScope Rating algorithm can calculate a single numerical score for each 401k plan in the country. The data points examined cover broad categories such as total plan cost, company generosity and investment menu quality.
BrightScope has rated nearly 50,000 401k plans, spanning more than 30 million workers and over $2 trillion in assets. Industry adoption of the BrightScope Rating will lead to more cost-effective plans, increased participation rates, higher employee satisfaction and better outcomes for the 60 million employees who depend on their 401k plan for retirement.
BrightScope is a financial information company that brings transparency to opaque markets through independent research and analysis. Delivered through web-based software, BrightScope data drives better decision-making for individual investors, corporate plan sponsors, asset managers, broker-dealers, and financial advisors. The BrightScope Rating, developed in partnership with leading independent 401k fiduciaries, reviews more than 200 unique data inputs per plan and calculates a single numerical score which defines plan quality at the company level. In April 2011, the company launched BrightScope Advisor Pages, the first comprehensive and publicly available directory of financial advisors designed to help consumers discover information and conduct due diligence on wealth management professionals. BrightScope also markets a suite of data analytics software products to Fortune 1000 companies, asset managers, broker-dealers, financial advisors, and other market participants. Public ratings for more than 46,000 retirement plans as well as rating definitions, criteria and methodologies, and information on more than 770,000 financial advisors and 45,000 advisory firms are available for free at .
Katie Carlson
Atomic PR for BrightScope
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