The twist is this: The bad news is only a fraction of the people will be able to save $4.3 million for retirement because the average salary is too low. The good news is most people won’t need to save $4.3 million because, thanks to living on a low average salary, they are accustomed to spending far less.
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The challenge is plan sponsors often can’t determine if an account is forgotten until some triggering event. And by that time, it’s too late.
Here are some ideas that have been proposed before
The antiseptic compliance regime spelled out by the DOL and ERISA has to date defined fiduciary services. Perhaps, if we’re going to consider what is “beyond” that sterile definition, we might want to go back to the future. In a sense, rediscovering where “fiduciary” initially came from might suggest where it is headed.
Must be August. Lotsa stuff, the philosophy of fiduciary, and you’re too young to know.
“They can benefit from something more tailored to their unique circumstances, particularly as they are approaching certain key inflection points in their working lives or key financial decisions they have to make or key life events. Therefore, what we’ve been seeing in the retirement plan industry is this emphasis on retirement plan services.”
Good News/Bad news, back to basics, and who didn’t see this coming?
Back then, at least, we knew who wore the white hats and who whore the black hats. Today, thanks to muddled and often conflicting regulations for multiple agencies, everyone is wearing fifty shades of gray.
RMDs, ROTHs, abandoned plans, and beyond fiduciary
FiduciaryNews.com Trending Topics for ERISA Plan Sponsors: Week Ending 8/18/23
A Social Security warning spelled out in dollars and cents, otherwise, it’s August, and you know what that means.