The SIFMA has no Clothes, the next investment fad and “Are you Ready for some Fee-Ball?”
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To the extent regulation improves efficiencies, there will always be winners and losers. Those who don’t benefit will always oppose the change.
In a week that we featured Investment Due Diligence for 401k plans, a major court ruling shows what happened without such due diligence.
Now we know why Washington has been dissing the 401k, why we lost the war for the fiduciary standard and why investors keep losing money.
A funny thing happened on the way to the fiduciary standard lynching and what the world will look like when fees are transparent
Politicians want to milk the 401k cash cow, the DOL catches the industry with its pants down and just who does really benefit from the new Fee Disclosure Rule?
Washington attacks 401k plans as states move to convert DB plans to DC plans, fiduciary advocates take off the gloves, annuities replace TDFs as favorite whipping boy and more.
The war for the fiduciary begins to shift arenas, we learn the downside of “low-cost” and all indications are the financial industry still hasn’t learned the root cause of the 2008 crisis.
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Retirees dodge a Washington Bullet, the fiduciary debate heats up, a look into the future with future disclosure and the beginning of the end of Modern Portfolio Theory?