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Index › HR › Products › Nationwide · November 2026 Edition

401(k) providers · Named, not ranked

Nationwide

–Too few to rank

6/14Models named it

0First choices

7Warnings

November 2026 Edition · all company sizes counted.

Ranked in401(k) providers #63 mid-market

What AI models recommend

Named, too few times to rank.

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. Nationwide has 1.

Why models recommend it

No positive label carried a quote.

What gives them pause

“insurance-based providers (Principal, MassMutual, Nationwide, John Hancock) tend to raise more red flags”Kimi K2 · Negative question · warning

Also on the shortlist

The products named in the same answers as Nationwide, over the 7 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.

Product	Named together	Picked instead
Fidelity Advantage 401	6	2	View →
Empower Retirement	5	0	View →
John Hancock	5	0	View →
Vanguard Workplace Solutions	5	0	View →
Paychex Retirement Services	3	0	View →
Principal Financial Group	3	0	View →
Betterment for Business	2	1	View →
Employee Fiduciary 401(k) Plan	2	1	View →
Guideline	2	1	View →
ADP Retirement Services	2	0	View →

A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.

How this is measured

Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.

Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.

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Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages the answers that named Nationwide came back with. A fact about retrieval, not a cause of the answer.

Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 7 of the 7 answers that named Nationwide and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

reddit.com7

investmentnews.com6

planadviser.com6

employeefiduciary.com4

news.bloomberglaw.com4

plansponsor.com4

bogleheads.org3

napa-net.org3

propublica.org3

purposefulfinance.org3

No domain is on file for Nationwide, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

investmentnews.com/regulation-legal-compliance/workers-allege-principal-financial-ran-459b4

bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php3

propublica.org/article/401k-retirement-investment-plan-risk-trump3

purposefulfinance.org/a-guide-to-choosing-a-401k-provider3

reddit.com/r/Bogleheads/comments/1kw87w4/anyone_else_have_bad_401k_choices3

reddit.com/r/FIREyFemmes/comments/18wvcx6/update_on_employer_401k_recommendations_needed3

employeefiduciary.com/blog/small-business-owners-are-redefining-the-401k-market2

employeefiduciary.com/blog/switching-401k-providers2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

By model

How each model answered on Nationwide across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

Model	Warning	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0
Grok 4.20	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0
Kimi K2	1	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	0