​​About Scarborough

For more than five decades, Scarborough Alliance has had one basic mission: To help union members plan for a comfortable retirement. Our role begins as you start saving and continues as you transition into and through your retirement years.

We have a deep understanding of labor union retirement plans and the challenges they face. We are focused on providing a suite of investment programs to help union members and their families align their assets with their goals. Since 1970, local unions and their members have turned to Scarborough Alliance as a trusted partner that is honest, dependable, and 100% committed to our participants.

Who we serve and how

  • Active and retiring local union members
  • Individualized retirement planning and investment advice
  • A live person answers your calls, with no confusing phone prompts and buttons to push
  • With an average of 14.6 years tenure servicing the IBEW plans, representatives have the experience and knowledge to answer participant questions
  • All plan participants, active and retired, are offered account reviews with securities-licensed representatives holding some of the industry’s top designations
  • We work with IBEW members in 48 states from Maine to Hawaii

Local union leadership

  • Trusted fiduciary to IBEW plans with deep, long-standing relationships with members and within the leadership structure of the IBEW locals and International office
  • Exceptional level of personalized retirement planning services that are not typically available to qualified retirement plan members
  • Demonstrated track record of high participant satisfaction as measured by workshop surveys, account review surveys, and a high retention rate
  • Independent financial advisors offering non-proprietary investments
  • Offer plans to accept rollovers of your members’ company retirement plans, and qualified retirement plan solutions for Local Union staff and companies who employ your members
  • Investments for Local Union reserve funds