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Qualified Plan Services

According to Charles Schwab’s 2021 401(k) Participant Survey, plan participants believe they need to save $1.9 million for retirement, and only 53% believe they are very likely to achieve their retirement goals.

Wallington serves as an Advisor and Investment Manger on trustee-directed and participant-directed qualified retirement plans such as 401(k) plans. Through our Qualified Retirement Plan Services, we impact a core group of plan participants who may not otherwise have access to professional high-net-worth and institutional Wealth Management services. The result is a comprehensive, cost-effective, and performance-driven benefit program for your company’s most vital resource.

Our Investment and Wealth Management expertise allows us to deliver a deeper, more comprehensive service to sponsors and participants than most plan advisors can provide. Through participant education meetings, plan members have routine opportunity to evaluate savings, investment, and other important plan decisions with direct access to professional Wealth Management services. We help you provide your valued employees with the resources they need to reach and succeed in retirement.

In addition, unlike many advisors, our full exclusion of commission and soft-dollar arrangements allow us to remain truly independent in the selection and management of your plan’s investment lineups.   

Our Team:

  • Leverages our securities management expertise in the selection and maintenance of mutual fund and exchange-traded fund lineups
  • Directly engages retirement plan participants via employee enrollment and routine education meetings
  • Leads Trustee fiduciary review meetings
  • Serves as liaison between plan sponsors, Third Party Administrators (TPAs), and other trusted partners
Wallington has served as a fiduciary partner to pooled retirement plan Trustees and participants for more than three decades. Through our Trustee-Directed Plan Services, we deliver proven, disciplined, actively managed individual securities portfolios generally reserved for institutions and individuals whose investable net worth exceeds $1 million. The result is a cost-effective, performance-driven employee benefit offering with complete cohesion between Investment Management and Trustee fiduciary decisions. See our investment philosophy.

Our Team:
  • Delivers long-term performance-driven management of equity, fixed income, and alternative investment securities backed by a successful track record of more than three decades
  • Leads Trustee exploratory, decision-making, and fiduciary review meetings
  • Directly engages retirement plan participants via employee enrollment and routine education meetings
  • Serves as liaison between plan sponsors, Third Party Administrators (TPAs), and other trusted partners
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Michael Charles, CFP®, CPA

Vice President, Senior Wealth Advisor

Michael A. Charles earned his Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Accounting from the University of Notre Dame and his Masters of Business Administration from Butler University. He began his career performing various functions in accounting, auditing, and corporate financial analysis where he earned his Certified Public Accountant designation. In 1990, Mr. Charles transitioned to the financial services industry, focusing on managing private investment portfolios and providing personal financial planning for high net worth individuals. While at NatCity Investments, he earned his Certified Financial Planner™ designation and successfully established and managed the financial planning department serving over 200 of the firm’s financial advisors and their clients. Mr. Charles joined Wallington Asset Management in 2012 from TIAA-CREF where he spent over five years serving high net worth clients as a Wealth Management Advisor. In his role at Wallington Asset Management, Mr. Charles is primarily responsible for financial planning and portfolio management. He is also involved in security analysis and serves as a member of Wallington Asset Management’s Investment Selection Committee. Mr. Charles philanthropic participation includes his current positions as Treasurer and Board Director for Right to Life of Indianapolis and his past membership on one of Marian University’s advisory boards.