The Firm
Co-Founded in 2013 by Cayce Weems, CFA, and Kenneth Robertson, Weems & Robertson has only one line of business:
providing investment advice to fiduciaries of qualified retirement plans: (401(k), 401(a), 403(b), 457, and DB pension).
We are not tied to any fund manufacturer or recordkeeping platform. With all our revenue coming from advisory and research work for our clients, we are free from the potential conflicts of interest that undermine many of our competitors.
We typically work on a retainer basis, but also do project work, such as revenue share analysis, vendor fee negotiation, best practices benchmarking, fiduciary training, fiduciary audit, investment manager search and selection, and requests for proposals (RFP).
The Founders
Cayce Weems, CFA
Ken and Cayce first met as study partners for the CFA exam in the offices of The 401(k) Company, which at the time had around 50 employees. Ken was the Chief Investment Officer and hired Cayce as his first investment analyst. His first project was to build a fund analytics and reporting platform for fund search, selection, and monitoring. Version 1.0 was made in Excel, but later would grow into a much larger project that was automated, trademarked, and ultimately valued independently as a formal asset once The 401(k) Company was sold to Nationwide and later to Charles Schwab. This is also the year Weems & Robertson was born. Like Ken, Cayce has served as a fiduciary and investment consultant for the vast majority of his professional life, regularly providing counsel for qualified plans as small as $10 million and as large as $250 million, a range that reflects the clients of Weems & Robertson, as well.
Ken Robertson, CIMA
Prior to entering the investment consulting business in 1986, Ken worked as an minister, college teacher, and as a social worker. After working for 20+ years as a principal of The 401(k) Company, and after serving for nearly a decade as a Contributing Editor ("Investment Corner") to Panel Publishers 401(k) Advisor, and to The 401(k) Company's plan sponsor newsletter, Ken was widely regarded as an expert in his field and shared this knowledge with plan sponsors for many years until his passing in March 2023. While he is no longer with us, our learned lessons from his mentorship and counsel still inform every decision we make for our clients, for which we are forever grateful.
Specialties: ERISA law, 401(k), Investment evaluation and monitoring, fiduciary education, 404(c) audit, asset allocation strategy, revenue sharing analysis, vendor fee negotiation, performance benchmarking, Investment Policy Statement development, RFP, RFI
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