In this retirement plan version of the game “Who Killed Cock Robin?” we can identify three macroeconomic trends that slayed the pension plan, once the giant among all retirement plans. But, where does the 401k fit in?
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Despite those imagined rosy memories, actual history shows, with a few notable exceptions, pensions were never as universal or as lucrative as imagined.

State pension implosion, a regulation without teeth, and the fee-value correlation.

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

The real retirement crisis, dumbing down fiduciary, and solving wrong problems.

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.”
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Pension problems, spaghetti regs, and the never ending battle between stocks and bonds.