Independent · Employee-Owned · Fee-Only

Where IndependenceMeets Expertise.

We evaluate, select, and audit retirement, health and welfare, investment, and actuarial providers. We sell no products and accept no commissions – so our analysis serves our clients, not a vendor.

700+
Clients Served
25+
Years in Practice
3000+
Completed Engagements
WBENC Certified Women-Owned Business

Four Integrated Disciplines

At most firms, these are separate practices. At Curcio Webb, they are one.

The decisions that move plan costs and participant outcomes rarely live inside a single service area – so we built one firm across Retirement, Health & Welfare, Investment Programs, and Actuarial, and every engagement carries the full picture from day one.

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How We Work

How an Engagement Works

Every search follows a defined, documented process your committee can stand behind. A typical engagement runs 10 to 16 weeks from RFP issuance to finalist selection, depending on scope.

01

Scope and Discovery

We define the search scope, evaluation criteria, and timeline with your committee – grounded in your plan's size, complexity, and goals.

02

RFP and Evaluation

We build a customized RFP, issue it to qualified providers, manage provider questions, and score every response against the agreed criteria.

03

Finalist Selection

We present the analysis to your committee, coordinate finalist presentations, and support fee negotiation and contract review through final selection.

04

Implementation Oversight

We stay through the transition – project management, data migration coordination, and holding the chosen provider to what it proposed.

Our Principles

What Sets
Us Apart

Markets change. Providers change. Our foundation does not.

01

Stewardship

We are stewards to our clients, their providers, and our colleagues. For clients, that means delivering the right answer, not the comfortable one. For providers, it means fair and rigorous evaluation processes they can trust. For colleagues, it means work worth putting our name on.

What this means for you

Plan sponsors retain us because they need an advisor whose judgment holds across every relationship the engagement touches.

02

Independence

We are paid only by our clients and accept no other forms of compensation. That zero-conflict structure is rare in this industry – and it is what ensures our work answers to one party: the plan sponsor.

What this means for you

When we deliver our findings, plan sponsors know what produced them: our analysis, not a financial arrangement with any provider. As an employee-owned firm, that independence extends to our ownership structure – no parent company, no outside investor, no institutional interest shaping what we put in front of a client.

03

Integrity

Integrity means our findings reflect what the data shows, not what a client hopes to hear. We build work products that hold up under scrutiny – from plan committees, legal review, and regulators – and we stand behind our conclusions when they are challenged.

What this means for you

The value of our judgment depends entirely on its honesty. Plan sponsors know what we deliver reflects our genuine assessment of the facts.

Our Team

The People Behind the Work

Advisors to plan sponsors – and former leaders within the providers we evaluate.

Meet the Full Team
Insights

Insights from Our Team

Perspectives on the decisions that move plan costs and participant outcomes.

Featured · Video2026

Brian Dennen on AI in Benefits Consulting

A conversation on where AI genuinely changes benefits consulting work and where it does not – the difference between tools that accelerate analysis and tools that replace judgment, and what plan sponsors should expect from their advisors in the next three years.

Brian Dennen, Managing PrincipalPeople Who Help People Podcast32 minWatch
Episode · 2026
“The difference between tools that accelerate analysis and tools that replace judgment.”
People Who Help People Podcast
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Get in Touch

Talk to Our Team

Whether you are evaluating providers, benchmarking fees, or planning a competitive search, we would welcome the opportunity to discuss how Curcio Webb can support your goals.

Direct Line
847.279.7341
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