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.
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401k rising, the Fiduciary Rule’s long goodbye, and a fee trend worth continuing.

The church rises as the state falls, fiduciary fireworks, and the coming investment civil war.

“We have reached a watershed moment for retirement planning and saving.”

“Hopefully,” says Reese, “this past year gave employers a better understanding of what they need to look out for to act as fiduciaries for their plan participants.”
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State pension implosion, a regulation without teeth, and the fee-value correlation.