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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.
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.
7 Deadly Sins Every ERISA Fiduciary Must Avoid: The 2nd Deadly Sin – The Joy of “Risk”
To really understand investment risk, we must first discover how risk management first evolved.
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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