Year: 2011
Fiduciary News Trending Topics for ERISA Plan Sponsors: Week Ending 8/26/11
A week with compliance news coming in from all sides. What issue will have the greatest impact?
Why Risk Doesn’t Matter to the ERISA Fiduciary
First the bad news: The client isn’t always right. Now the worse news: If you listen to the client you’ve just bitten off a chunk of fiduciary liability. How did you get in this mess in the first place?
The 401k Plan Sponsor’s Dilemma – What’s Wrong with “Risk”
How a simple pub game destroyed the nearly two generations-old foundation that built a Nobel-Prize winning investment theory.
Fiduciary News Trending Topics for ERISA Plan Sponsors: Week Ending 8/19/11
Read the fallout from the mass market media op-eds that take opposite sides in the fiduciary standard debate while both taking flack from just one side – those in favor of the fiduciary standard.
Investment Risk and the 401k Fiduciary: An Overview of Components
To best understand what is wrong with the misuse of investment “risk tolerance,” we need to understand these components of risk.
7 Deadly Sins Every ERISA Fiduciary Must Avoid: The 2nd Deadly Sin – The Joy of “Risk”
To really understand investment risk, we must first discover how risk management first evolved.
Fiduciary News Trending Topics for ERISA Plan Sponsors: Week Ending 8/12/11
With Congress in recess, the anti-fiduciary lobbyists have moved to major media outlets. Meanwhile, we’re continually discovering government regulation too often produces Rube Goldberg fiascos like target-date funds.
Which Fiduciary “Cost” Matters Most: The Broker’s or the Retirement Investor’s?
Both sides of the fiduciary debate suggest their view reduces retirement investor costs. They can’t both be right. Luckily, the marketplace offers a real testing ground, leaving only one question: Who does the DOL protect – the industry or the investor?
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