Just because you don’t have a fiduciary duty to other employees doesn’t mean you shouldn’t continue to think like a fiduciary.
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MEP/PEP
Do you know the answers to the most important MEP/PEP questions – or do you only think you know the answers to the most important MEP/PEP questions?
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- Exclusive Interview: Pete Swisher Explains Why Companies Don’t Care About MEPs (or PEPs or Even 401k Plans) 0
- Exclusive Interview: Ary Rosenbaum Says, Despite SECURE ACT, Some 401k MEPs Challenges Remain 0
- To MEP Or Not To MEP? That is the SECURE 401k Question 0
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Interviews
“Encouraging lifetime income distributions was one of my major initiatives at DOL and my biggest regret was that I was not able to move the ball forward as much as I wanted during my time there.” Here she explains why.
- Exclusive Interview: Jack Towarnicky on HSAs, Sidecars, and 401k “Liquidity Without Leakage” 0
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- Exclusive Interview: Jean-Pierre Aubry Explains Research That Concludes ESG Investments Do Not Belong In Retirement Plans 0
- Exclusive Interview: Ron Rhoades Warns Millennials Still Afraid Of Stocks And Suggests What To Do About It 0
- Exclusive Interview: Phyllis Borzi on the SECURE Act, Target Date Funds, and “Discredited Disclosure” 1
Education
Just because you don’t have a fiduciary duty to other employees doesn’t mean you shouldn’t continue to think like a fiduciary.
- Plan Loans Address and Avoid Hardships – Today and Tomorrow! 0
- How Can 401k Plan Sponsors Best Prepare Employees For Post-Retirement Complexity? 0
- Gamification Tips for 401k Education 0
- 401k Education: Teaching Parents to Teach Their Children 0
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Conflicts of Interest
You can squeeze a tube of toothpaste all you want, but that doesn’t change how much toothpaste it holds. Are we experiencing the same thing with 401k fees, or are they really dropping as much as we think? And, if they are dropping, are they dropping for the right reasons?
- How 401k Plan Sponsor Fiduciary Liability Changes When Retaining Retiree Assets 0
- Why Are We Seeing So Little Being Written About 401k Fees Now? 0
- Fiduciary Lessons from Ken Fisher Fallout 0
- How Many Small Business Owners Accidentally Trap Themselves with This Treacherous 401k Fiduciary Conflict? 1
- What Will Replace “Fiduciary”? 1
Due Diligence
While some may consider this heresy, the best option for a fiduciary managing a portfolio is to include a consistent percentage of assets outside the equity markets and in assets that preserve capital.
- 7 Fiduciary Duties 401k Plan Sponsors Overlook And What They Can Do To Address Them 0
- Why Is There No Consensus On What ‘ESG’ Means? 0
- The Fiduciary Perils of Selling Short 0
- 3 Reasons Companies Should Ditch Their Stand-Alone 401k And Join A 401k PEP 0
- Do 401k MEP/PEPs Really Reduce Fiduciary Liability for Member Companies? 0
Compliance
Although the Rule appears to be directed primarily at service providers, plan sponsors still have a fiduciary duty to monitor plan compliance, and that includes complying with the demands of this new rule.
- Fiduciary Fear And Loathing In The World Of ERISA 0
- The 401k Fiduciary Dilemma: More Participation Or More Savings? 1
- The 3 Most Critical Concerns of Small 401k Plan Sponsors 1
- The DOL’s New Back To The Future “ESG” (a.k.a. “Fiduciary”) Rule 0
- What Trump vs. Biden Means to 401k Plan Sponsors and the Typical Plan Fiduciary 0
Opinion
These are the evergreen articles that have stood the test of time. Why do you think that is so? Take a look and decide for yourself.
- Top 5 FiduciaryNews.com Stories in 2020 for the 401k Plan Sponsor and Fiduciary 0
- 3 Unintended Consequences Point Out How Robert Smith’s Honest Gift to Pay Loans Neglects Duty to Students’ Best Interest – A Lesson In Fiduciary Duty 1
- A Fiduciary Focus: 5 Steps 401k Plan Sponsors Should Resolve to Take in 2019 1
- What if the DOL Wrote the Rules of Golf? 1
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Not Wasting #Retirement Crisis, Whither the Fiduciary Rule? and Investing Against The Wind.
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