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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?

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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Market Regulation: Boon or Bane to 401k Plan Sponsors & Investors?

What famous logical fallacy might explain how Washington dooms 401k fiduciaries and their investors?

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