At one point within two days of a total meltdown, our financial markets appear to have recovered. Can we now say with certainty what went wrong? Will misguided âsolutionsâ only place our markets are risk once more?
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As usual, be careful about elixirs marketed as cure-alls. Personally involved in creating CITs in the early 1990s specifically to market to 401k plans, Iâll share my experiences with you here.
$16.5 million is a large price to pay for disclosure and due diligence a plan fiduciary can simply and consistently address. This may be the easiest action a 401k plan fiduciary to take to prevent the camel from sticking his nose under the tent.
The question now on the mind of every 401k fiduciary: Will the DOLâs new rule increase my personal fiduciary liability?
FiduciaryNews asked several prominent independent investment advisers what they felt about the joint agency RFI. They revealed six major concerns every 401k fiduciary must consider regarding annuities.
Why wait until now to bring up the three-month old blog? The bigger question, however, remains, âHow should a 401k fiduciary analyze mutual fund fees?â
Many feel the DOL rightly reversed earlier rules that allowed for too many potential conflicts-of-interest. But, will any new DOL guidelines only encourage a âcookie-cutterâ approach, doing the investor more harm than good?
Sometimes something that appears too good to be true really is. Professionals have long known the potential pitfalls of ETFs. Only recently have these facts become more widely known. Donât be surprised if, like a tube of toothpaste, squeezing one problem away only creates a bulge in a different problem.
SEC’s Mary Shapiro: âWhen it comes to 12b-1 fees, there is a need for more fundamental change than mere disclosure reforms and a name change.â FiduciaryNewsâ exploration of this hot potato reveals a surprising misconception.
Readers Select Top Fiduciary Stories of 2009: #5 401k Plans Recover Significantly by Year-End
The market boomerang has allowed many 401k participants to recover most, though not quite all, of their losses. A recent study cites three primary factors for this recovery.