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Exclusive Interview: Barbara Roper Says Mere Disclosure Inadequate for Fiduciary Advice
For that to work, however, it’s not enough to change the titles brokers use – to make them call their sales representatives “salespeople” and call their services “sales recommendations” – you’d also have to completely change the way they market themselves so that their marketing messages are consistent with their regulatory status.
FiduciaryNews.com Trending Topics for ERISA Plan Sponsors: Week Ending 10/13/17
The wrong way to save retirement, the truth about “clean” shares, and Investing: It’s all your fault!
What a Fiduciary Should Know: Down and Dirty with “Clean” Shares
It will be important for 401k plan sponsors to get down and dirty when it comes to understanding the fiduciary liability implications of “clean” shares and their equivalent. Furthermore, since the most successful class action suits have involved different share classes of the same fund, you can be sure the introduction of “clean” shares will catch the eyes of your not-so-friendly neighborhood class action attorney.
FiduciaryNews.com Trending Topics for ERISA Plan Sponsors: Week Ending 10/6/17
Compliance update, fiduciary update, and exactly how clean are those “clean” shares?
401k: Kill it or Expand Its Reach?
This is not to say the 401k is perfect and that there’s no need to improve it. These improvements, though, would be more like tweaks rather than wholesale changes.
FiduciaryNews.com Trending Topics for ERISA Plan Sponsors: Week Ending 9/29/17
Compliance test, plan sponsor fiduciary awareness, and the similarity between Paul McCartney’s grandfather and the future of mutual funds.
Guidelines for Minor Children: How to Avoid a Personal Retirement Crisis
But, as the cliché goes, “What about the children?” Arguably, it is minor children who have the best (and easiest) opportunity to shield themselves from a retirement crisis. They have the advantage of time (to maximize the benefits of compound interest).
FiduciaryNews.com Trending Topics for ERISA Plan Sponsors: Week Ending 9/22/17
Pension problems, spaghetti regs, and the never ending battle between stocks and bonds.
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