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The 4D Framework

The Roland|Criss 4D FrameworkTM signifies a fundamental change in the way employee benefit plans achieve effectiveness.

How the 4D Framework works

Our Firm’s Practice


We help employers function, adapt, and evolve in an increasingly complex environment so they can produce the best results for their employees and their enterprises, whether it be through the administration of employee benefit plans, auditing of support systems like payroll and vendors’ fees, monitoring service providers’ cybersecurity networks, or tailoring control frameworks that underpin retirement plans.

Our Approach to Risk Advisory

Retirement Plans

As an independent ERISA 3(16) plan administrator, we blend a comprehensive governance, risk management, and compliance framework with years of frontline experience to relieve clients of regulatory and legal risks, and maximize the performance of their plans’ service providers.

Investment Risk

By integrating with our GRC framework, our clients’ modernize their investment decision-making practices for their retirement and pension plans and align fees with the new pricing paradigm.

Third-Party Risk Management

We help clients select and monitor the vendors that serve their retirement, pension, healthcare, and welfare benefit plans by evaluating the quality of their services and the reasonableness of their fees.

Cybersecurity

We provide fiduciary committees with the risk assessments, procedures, and AI-enabled vendor monitoring they need to manage their role as the main guarantor of the security of benefit plan assets and data. Our assessments adhere to guidelines issued by the Employee Benefits Security Administration (“EBSA”) and standards published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (“NIST”).

Payroll Risk Management

We help clients avoid the threat payroll errors pose to the accuracy of their retirement plans through independent verification and reconciliation.

Healthcare & Welfare Plan Compliance

Our assessments of service providers to healthcare and welfare plans help our clients comply with regulations enforced by the U.S. Department of Labor.

Empowering Leaders

We initiated this online forum to enable collaboration among executives who appreciate employee benefit plan risks and strive to reduce them through knowledge and tactics. Participation is available for members of committees that oversee retirement, pension, healthcare, and welfare plans.

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