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Industry Fights Hard to Exclude IRAs from Fiduciary Standard
Is this the last gasps of a dying business model whose ruins new life seems destined to find rebirth?
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.
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.
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?
Fiduciary News Trending Topics for ERISA Plan Sponsors: Week Ending 7/08/11
You’d never guess what editors come up with on a short holiday week.
Momentum Builds to Place IRAs Under Fiduciary Umbrella
Having no idea what the fiduciary means, and worse, not caring, most IRA R/O investors are sheep heading for their (financial) slaughter. Not anymore, if the DOL’s Phyllis Borzi has her way.
Fiduciary News Trending Topics for ERISA Plan Sponsors: Week Ending 7/01/11
It’s a tale of two regulators. One wants to play politics while the other wants to accomplish something. Meanwhile, ETFs continue to get mixed reviews.
Fiduciary News Trending Topics for ERISA Plan Sponsors: Week Ending 6/24/11
Do you get the feeling a this fee talk is just sleight-of-hand? There are so many fees, no wonder why investors are confused between the fees that matter and the fees that don’t matter.
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