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Time for SEC’s Schapiro to Resign?
A Play-by-Play citing media articles throughout the year showing how SEC Chair Mary Schapiro misplayed her strategy to hold the fiduciary standard hostage for more Congressional money.
Fiduciary News Trending Topics for ERISA Plan Sponsors: Week Ending 9/9/11
Will the fiduciary standard go down with Obama? Will they finally pay attention to the 401k Fee ticking time bomb? And, when will they ever learn?
Fiduciary News Trending Topics for ERISA Plan Sponsors: Week Ending 9/2/11
As the fight shift from adopting a fiduciary standard to redefining “fiduciary,” we learn the fee-counters might be counting the chickens before they’re hatched.
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?
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.
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.
Fiduciary News Trending Topics for ERISA Plan Sponsors: Week Ending 8/5/11
As economic news overshadows regulatory news, questions arise if the same political malaise eroding markets will soon also infect any possibility of moving forward with leveling the playing field on the regulatory front.
Fiduciary News Trending Topics for ERISA Plan Sponsors: Week Ending 7/29/11
As the lobbyists get their Congressional minions to put the heat up on the DOL, a recent spat of investment articles accidentally show the need for a true fiduciary standard.
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