According to the Investment Company Institute, only 1.9% of all Roth IRAs are rollovers. Why aren’t more opting to rollover into Roths?
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The GOT system offers a viable and practical alternative to relying on outdated MPT tools. Although still widely in use, MPT-based calculators and analyzers can sometimes lead retirement savers to make decisions that aren’t in their best interest. That statement alone should trigger concerns from the mindful fiduciary.
State-Run bellwether, fiduciary redux, and market euphoria vs. reality
So one wants his epitaph to read “Here lies John Doe. He beat the S&P 500.” There needs to be an easy-to-understand and easy-to-implement system that properly reflects both your goals and the consequences of failing to meet those goals. Retirement savers want and need a system that represents a better way to set and meet retirement goals.
The Social Security conundrum, leveling the fiduciary playing field, and focusing on fees that matter.
If you want to understand how sophisticated plan sponsors think, you need to talk to sophisticated plan sponsors. For many years, Dale Neibert served as part of a two-man operation that headed one of the nation’s most sophisticated 401k plans. He explains how this plan sponsor incorporated advance behavioral finance techniques, and how it avoided some of today’s most dangerous fads.
The real retirement crisis, dumbing down fiduciary, and solving wrong problems.
Many professionals and most of the current generation of finance professors have long ago removed “risk” from their investment decision-making algorithms. These forward-thinking folks recognize the greater importance of managing retirement saver behavior over managing irrelevant investment risk as it pertains to meeting or exceeding the goal of retiring in comfort.
Is there really a retirement crisis? A fiduciary can of worms? And what’s a reasonable fee?
FiduciaryNews.com Trending Topics for ERISA Plan Sponsors: Week Ending 8/4/17
401k rising, the Fiduciary Rule’s long goodbye, and a fee trend worth continuing.