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.
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Is this the last gasps of a dying business model whose ruins new life seems destined to find rebirth?
As the fight shift from adopting a fiduciary standard to redefining “fiduciary,” we learn the fee-counters might be counting the chickens before they’re hatched.
A week with compliance news coming in from all sides. What issue will have the greatest impact?
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.
As the lobbyists get their Congressional minions to put the heat up on the DOL, a recent spat of investment articles accidentally show the need for a true fiduciary standard.
Fiduciary News Trending Topics for ERISA Plan Sponsors: Week Ending 11/4/11
Featuring a lot of investment talk, from more mourning on TDFs to the Dark Side of behavioral finance.