About Us
Marina L. Edwards, Founder
Marina Edwards is the founder of Marina Retirement, LLC, a boutique ERISA retirement consulting business. Marina applies her 30+ years of defined contribution plan expertise to conduct fiduciary training, vendor searches, fee benchmarking, compliance reviews, and other strategic projects (i.e., merger and acquisition due diligence and strategy) to plan sponsors and advisors. She primarily serves Fortune 500 companies and large not-for-profit entities and specializes in complex retirement plan designs and operations.
Prior to starting her own firm in 2022, Marina served as Invesco’s Institutional Senior DC Strategist, and 20+ years at Willis Towers Watson as a Senior DC Consultant in the Benefits, Advisory & Compliance group where she primarily served clients having DC plans with +$1B AUM. Throughout her career, Marina has advised many large employers across a wide range of industries including health care, higher education, financial services, utility, food and beverage, pharmaceutical, oil and gas, and manufacturing.
She is a recognized guest speaker for numerous national DC conferences and has been quoted in such publications as The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Pensions & Investments, U.S. News & World Report and Workforce Management.
Our Mission
At Marina Retirement, LLC, we are dedicated to providing our clients with exceptional high-touch fiduciary risk management and ERISA consulting services. We are very selective with the type and number of client projects that we accept at any given time so that we ensure delivery of our "white-glove, valet service" that our clients expect from us.