An Independent Advocate for
Plan Sponsors and Participants.

Since our inception, Regency has quietly helped hundreds of companies and thousands of plan participants keep more of what they earn — through independent counsel, rigorous benchmarking, and unwavering advocacy.

$2B+ Historical Assets Overseen
2,000+ Qualified Plans Served
$11M+ In Identified Savings Since Inception
114 Vendors Actively Screened Across All Categories

What We Do

Four Disciplines.
One Independent Voice.

From the design of a company's retirement program through the ongoing monitoring of its insurance and investment structures, Regency serves as the single point of accountability across the entire benefits lifecycle.

401(k) & Pension

Retirement Plans

Qualified plan design, fiduciary compliance, vendor evaluation, fund review, and participant education — across 401(k), 403(b), Cash Balance, Pension, and ESOP programs.

Portfolio & Manager Review

Investment Monitoring

Ongoing fund performance review, manager tenure analysis, IPS compliance, and share class optimization — applying institutional-grade standards to every investment decision.

Medical & Dental

Group Benefits

Carrier benchmarking, benefit program review, financial forecasting, and regulatory monitoring across health, dental, vision, disability, and ancillary coverage lines.

Risk & Protection

Insurance

Life, long-term care, disability, and Section 125 program evaluation. Independent carrier analysis with no production ties — every recommendation driven by your organization's needs.

The Regency Model

We Engage Across the Full Lifecycle.

From a company's first benefit program to a mature, multi-layered structure,
Regency provides the continuity of oversight that each demands.

01

Fee and Service Benchmarking

Periodic market analysis of all vendors, carriers, and investment managers — ensuring the program remains competitively structured and administratively sound.

02

Plan Design & Launch

Program architecture, provider selection, contract negotiation, and implementation — establishing the structure that serves as the foundation for everything that follows.

03

Transition & Evolution

When a company grows, restructures, or changes direction, Regency manages the transition — from provider conversions and plan amendments to regulatory filings and participant communications.

04

Participant Engagement

Education programs, enrollment meetings, and financial literacy resources — connecting employees to the benefit programs their company has built for them.

05

Ongoing Compliance

Continuous oversight of regulatory obligations, investment performance, carrier relationships, and plan economics — with ADEA, HIPAA, PPACA, and ERISA mandates tracked on behalf of the plan sponsor.

06

Retirement Readiness

As participants approach the distribution phase, Regency coordinates the education, planning resources, and administrative support that a well-run program owes its members — and beyond, supporting participants through the full arc of retirement income.

Services & Process

Comprehensive Advocacy.
One Point of Accountability.

Regency manages the full scope of a company's retirement and benefit plans — structured around complete independence, with no financial ties to any provider.

ERISA Consulting & Compliance

Fiduciary Counsel

Regency provides ongoing counsel across the full scope of ERISA's requirements — ensuring plan sponsor obligations are documented, monitored, and defensible.

Vendor Evaluation & Review

Provider Intelligence

Regency screens vendors across recordkeeping, TPA, investment, and insurance categories. Our analysis is driven entirely by independent evaluation.

Investment Policy & Fund Review

Investment Oversight

A prudent investment lineup begins with a rigorous Investment Policy Statement and a disciplined, documented review process.

Qualified Plan Design

Plan Architecture

Regency structures programs that serve workforce objectives while maintaining compliance with the complex and ever-changing IRS and DOL landscape.

Benefits Program Review & Risk Management

Group Benefits & Insurance

Regency applies the same independent benchmarking methodology to the full benefits suite — medical, dental, life, disability, and ancillary programs.

Fee and Service Benchmarking

Independent Analysis

Independent market analysis of all vendor fees and service levels. Every recommendation is unconflicted and documented for the fiduciary record.

About Regency

Fifteen Years of Independent Advocacy.

Regency was founded on the principle that plan sponsors and participants deserve an advocate whose interests are structurally independent. The firm’s practice spans four disciplines across the full benefit lifecycle, delivered through a single point of accountability with no financial ties to any provider.

Our Distinction

What Sets
Regency Apart

Regency’s independence is its cornerstone — built into the firm’s founding model and maintained without exception.

  • Strictly fee-only. No revenue sharing or 12b-1 commissions from any provider.
  • No financial, production, or ownership ties to any recordkeeper, carrier, fund family, or TPA.
  • 114 vendors actively screened across recordkeeping, investments, administration, and insurance providers.
  • $11M+ in identified fee savings delivered to clients since inception.
  • Partnerships with over 30 financial planners, investment professionals, and insurance brokers.
  • Direct coordination with recordkeeping, investments, administration, payrolls, audits, PEOs, PEPs, 3(16), 3(21), 3(38), and 402(a) fiduciaries.
  • Serving clients domestically and internationally across all industries and company sizes.
Derek J. O'Neill AIF® ARPC®
President & Chief Executive Officer

Derek has spent 50 years in the retirement and benefits consulting industry — a depth of practice that is virtually unmatched in the independent consulting space. Over that career, he has worked on more than $2 billion in retirement plan assets across over 2,000 plans. His career began with six years of pension consulting in Ireland, where he developed a foundational fluency in defined benefit program design and actuarial disciplines that few practitioners carry into the defined contribution world.

Derek went on to build a long career at two of the industry's most significant institutions before founding Regency in 2011. The through-line across five decades has been a conviction that plan sponsors are best served by a consultant with no financial stake in the providers they evaluate — a principle that is structural at Regency, not aspirational.

Career Timeline
  • 1976 – 1982New Ireland Pension
  • 1982 – 1993Vice President, State Mutual
  • 1994 – 2011Vice President, Transamerica
  • 2011 – PresentRegency Retirement Plan Consultants
Beyond the Office

Derek is a longstanding figure in the New York metropolitan financial services community and remains active across the industry.

Logan A. O'Neill AIF®
Consultant & Investment Professional

Logan entered the financial services industry through investment banking at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC), where he worked on leveraged buyout modeling and due diligence — including exposure to the Twitter acquisition — across transactions totaling over $1.9 billion in enterprise value. That experience — building LBO models, stress-testing capital structures in upside, base, and downside scenarios, and evaluating credit quality through purchase and credit agreements — forms the analytical foundation he brings to Regency's consulting practice.

Prior to joining Regency, Logan also served as Managing Director of the Fordham University Endowment Investment Fund, leading a 30-person team overseeing $2.3 million in endowment capital. Under his direction, the fixed-income sleeve outperformed its benchmark by 2.5%. He came to Regency from that institutional setting in 2024, and has since become the engine behind the firm's growth, ideation, and analytical output — applying a capital markets sensibility to the retirement and benefits space where it is rarely found.

Career Timeline
  • 2022Equity & Credit Research Analyst
  • 2023Investment Banker, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
  • 2023 – 2024Managing Director, Gabelli School of Business Investment Fund
  • 2024 – PresentRegency Retirement Plan Consultants
Beyond the Office

Premier League soccer, fitness, water sports, and Mexican and Italian cooking. Bilingual in Spanish.

Claudette Gigi
Operations Manager

Claudette has been the operational backbone of Regency since the firm's founding in 2011. She oversees administrative operations, client coordination, and the day-to-day infrastructure that allows Regency's consulting practice to function at the standard the firm demands. Prior to joining Regency, Claudette built her professional foundation in the international publishing industry, where she developed the organizational discipline and client-facing professionalism that define her work at the firm.

Career Timeline
  • PriorInternational Magazine Industry
  • 2011 – PresentRegency Retirement Plan Consultants
Good Boy
Jethro
Secretary of Defense

Jethro joined the Regency team in 2025 as Secretary of Defense — a title he takes seriously. A German Shepherd in training through The Seeing Eye program, Jethro was raised by Logan O'Neill from puppyhood as part of Regency's unofficial but deeply felt commitment to the work The Seeing Eye does in the community.

Jethro is expected to depart for his final guide dog training in the summer of 2026, at which point the firm will begin the search for a suitable replacement to fill the role. His tenure has been distinguished by unwavering loyalty, consistent enthusiasm at arrivals, and a policy of zero tolerance for unsolicited squirrels.

Tenure
  • 2025 – 2026Regency Retirement Plan Consultants
  • Summer 2026Final Training — The Seeing Eye

Insights & Resources

The Informed Plan Sponsor.

Regulatory developments, litigation precedents, and legislative shifts continuously reshape the obligations of plan sponsors and benefit administrators. Regency publishes resources to keep clients current — and defensible.

A publication for plan sponsors, HR executives, and benefits administrators navigating the qualified retirement plan and group benefits landscape. Each issue covers regulatory developments, practical guidance, and commentary on the trends shaping the ERISA environment — written for the people responsible for acting on it.

ERISA Litigation Update

Northwestern University & the Excessive Fee Standard

The Supreme Court's 2022 ruling reaffirmed that plan sponsors cannot escape liability by offering a range of investment options.

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ERISA Litigation Update

Johnson & Johnson: The Expanding Frontier of Health Plan Liability

A 2024 federal jury finding marked a significant expansion of ERISA fiduciary liability into the group health plan context.

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ERISA Litigation Update

Cigna & the PBM Conflict of Interest Question

Ongoing litigation has placed the fiduciary obligations of group health plan sponsors under renewed scrutiny.

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Case Study · $2M – $5M Plan

Recordkeeper Transition for a Small-Market Employer

A company with a $3.2M plan had not benchmarked its recordkeeper in six years. Regency's evaluation identified a more effective platform.

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Case Study · $10M – $20M Plan

Compliance Coordination Following a DOL Inquiry

A $14M plan sponsor received a DOL inquiry regarding participant notice deficiencies. Regency coordinated the full response.

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Case Study · $20M – $50M Plan

Full-Service Provider Transition for a Growing Company

A $32M plan had outgrown its incumbent recordkeeper. Regency managed the full RFP and conversion process.

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Regulatory Update

SECURE 2.0: What Plan Sponsors Need to Address Now

SECURE 2.0 introduced over 90 provisions affecting qualified retirement plans — several with deadlines already in effect.

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Downloadable Guide

The Annual Fiduciary Checklist

Regency's fiduciary checklist provides plan sponsors with a structured framework for demonstrating prudent oversight throughout the year.

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Employee Education · 2026

Maximizing Your Retirement — 2026 Employee Education Module

Covering 401(k) contribution limits, Pre-Tax vs. Roth strategy, and real-world retirement projections across contribution rates.

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Materials published here are for informational purposes and are directed to plan sponsors and qualified plan fiduciaries. They do not constitute legal or tax advice. Regency Retirement Plan Consultants LLC is not acting in a fiduciary capacity with respect to these publications. Consult qualified legal and tax counsel regarding your specific circumstances.

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Reach Regency

Derek J. O'Neill, AIF®, ARPC®

President & Chief Executive Officer

201-934-401k derek@regencyb2b.com
Logan A. O'Neill, AIF®

Consultant

201-753-1976 logan@regencyb2b.com
Offices

Ramsey, New Jersey
New York, New York

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