Here are three easy practices a 401k plan fiduciary can implement to avoid one of the common investing mistakes identified by researchers in the field of behavioral finance.
Education
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?
How a simple pub game destroyed the nearly two generations-old foundation that built a Nobel-Prize winning investment theory.
To best understand what is wrong with the misuse of investment “risk tolerance,” we need to understand these components of risk.
To really understand investment risk, we must first discover how risk management first evolved.
What famous logical fallacy might explain how Washington dooms 401k fiduciaries and their investors?
How Babe Ruth Can Help 401k Plan Sponsors Teach Employees the Most Important Thing They Need to Know
Time diversification remains controversial, but here’s why the practitioners have one up on the academics.
Data here reveals the amazing truth about the success of total return investing. So, what’s a plan sponsor to do?
Why do two popular 401k options encourage investors to invest for income when most fiduciaries know (or show know) of the dangers of doing so?
For more than a century, fiduciaries followed the principles set forth in an 1830 court ruling. Two events in 1969 forever changed the landscape.
