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How Plan Sponsors Can Help 401k Investors Avoid Overdiversification
Two easy actions to take right now to give 401k investors a better chance to achieve their retirement goals.
Fiduciary News Trending Topics for ERISA Plan Sponsors: Week Ending 10/21/11
The pendulum again swings in favor of the fiduciary standard as the DOL threatens to come after service providers regarding questionable fees. In the meantime, the battle between Modern Portfolio Theory and Behavioral-based solutions gets hotter.
How Many Investment Options Should 401k Plan Sponsors Offer?
A better question: Why don’t enough 401k plan sponsors ask this important fiduciary question?
Fiduciary News Trending Topics for ERISA Plan Sponsors: Week Ending 10/7/11
A flurry of a week that saw lawmakers go back to the future, the brokers get more than they bargained for and another good “teachable moment” for investing.
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?
Risk and the 401k Investor: How Plan Sponsors Can Avoid Misleading Employees
Here are three easy practices a 401k plan fiduciary can implement to avoid one of the common investing mistakes identified by researchers in the field of behavioral finance.
Why Risk Doesn’t Matter to the ERISA Fiduciary
First the bad news: The client isn’t always right. Now the worse news: If you listen to the client you’ve just bitten off a chunk of fiduciary liability. How did you get in this mess in the first place?
The 401k Plan Sponsor’s Dilemma – What’s Wrong with “Risk”
How a simple pub game destroyed the nearly two generations-old foundation that built a Nobel-Prize winning investment theory.
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