A better question: Why don’t enough 401k plan sponsors ask this important fiduciary question?
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Is this the last gasps of a dying business model whose ruins new life seems destined to find rebirth?
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.
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?
How a simple pub game destroyed the nearly two generations-old foundation that built a Nobel-Prize winning investment theory.
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.
To really understand investment risk, we must first discover how risk management first evolved.
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.
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.