Pooled Employer Plans • The Artisan 401(k) PEP
The Artisan PEP is crafted with a focus on personalization and adaptability.
Through Voya’s recordkeeping platform, participants benefit from intuitive tools, behavioral finance-driven nudges, and engaging education designed to boost savings outcomes.
Complementing this is LeafHouse, a fiduciary partner known for its rigorous investment research and customized advisory approach.
Artisan gives employers a plan designed with flexibility in mind, while participants receive support that feels both innovative and personal.
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Highlights of Artisan PEP:
- Powered by Voya’s participant-focused tools, with goal tracking, mobile-first access, and behavioral nudges to encourage savings.
- Guided by LeafHouse, bringing deep fiduciary oversight and a boutique approach to fund selection and monitoring.
- Designed for employers who value flexibility, engagement, and participant-focused innovation.
- The Artisan Pooled Employer 401(k) Plan (PEP) that allows unrelated businesses to participate in a single plan managed by a pooled plan provider (PPP)—The Finway Group.
The Artisan Retirement PEP is an exclusive offering from industry leaders.
Finway Group
is the Pooled Plan Provider (PPP), 3(16) Plan Administrator, and Third Party Administrator
Voya
provides participant recordkeeping
LeafHouse
serves as the 3(38) investment fiduciary
Voya Institutional Trust Company
is the trustee
Who is it for?
How does it work?
Why do I want it?
How does it help employees?
Who is it for?
The Artisan Retirement PEP is ideal for a plan sponsor who wants to:
Offer a plan focused on personalization, flexibility, and provides participant tools to encourage better retirement savings
Minimize their fiduciary responsibilities and related risk
Outsource the day-to-day operations of their plan and buy back valuable time
Eliminate their trustee responsibility and liability
Eliminate their annual plan audit and related time and expense
You’ll experience many benefits:
Why do I want it?
The Artisan Retirement PEP will allow you to outsource the ERISA requirements to the PEP, so you no longer have to worry about it.
You’ll experience many benefits:
Fewer employee/participant calls & questions — we handle that!
Expert support across all facets of plan operation
Save time through easier payroll and contribution submission using our sophisticated payroll integrations
We’ll handle all the mundane details, notices, filings, and other plan operations
Investment consulting and advice that makes a difference and that you actually want
Provide your employees with Voya’s participant tools—typically afforded only to larger plans—which enable them to take better control over their savings path
Save on plan fees with discounted group rates
Reduce your plan fiduciary responsibilities and risk
How does it work?
You sign an agreement with Finway to join the PEP. Your participation in the plan is covered in a master plan document and the entire group of participating sponsors share in a single annual IRS Form 5500. You and your employees are then enrolled into The Artisan Retirement PEP and will have access to allocate their contributions to a robust range of high-quality investments.
Next, you can relax because you’ve got an entire team worrying about your employees’ retirement.
Now you’re free to focus on your business.
How does it help employees?
The Artisan Retirement PEP enables you to provide the range of participant services and capabilities typically reserved only for larger plans, including:
Retirement Education
Personalized Financial Wellness
Advanced Online Experience
Investment Advice
We handle the details.
It’s easy to say that you’ll save time and that we’ll handle the day-to-day operations. But what does that include?
We will:
Track participant eligibility and other critical census data
Sign and file the annual IRS Form 5500
Monitor your payroll uploads to ensure timely processing
Approve and manage loans & distribution requests
Manage and mail all required participant notices
Receive all recordkeeper emails and to-do lists
Isn’t it time to get rid of the headaches, hassles & heartburn of running your retirement plan?