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The Road to Vainglory: How Modern Portfolio Theory Went Viral

    The Road to Vainglory: How Modern Portfolio Theory Went Viral

Ultimately, if you want to protect yourself and others from making simple mistakes, you must embrace the sin that first birthed those missteps.

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This Is How We Rescued Retirement Savings From The 401k Frankenstein Created By An Infatuation With The ‘Style Box’

    This Is How We Rescued Retirement Savings From The 401k Frankenstein Created By An Infatuation With The ‘Style Box’

The proliferation of investment options promised participants a plug-and-play plan. In the process, it created a 401k Frankenstein monster of a mess.

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Exclusive Interview: Vic Ricciardi Says “Status Quo” Bias Thwarts Broader Acceptance of Behavioral Finance

    Exclusive Interview: Vic Ricciardi Says “Status Quo” Bias Thwarts Broader Acceptance of Behavioral Finance

Why are financial professionals more likely to embrace behavioral finance and how can this help the average investor?

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Goal-Oriented Target: How Leading Advisers and 401k Plan Sponsors are Using this New System to Replace Outdated Modern Portfolio Theory Risk Tools

    Goal-Oriented Target: How Leading Advisers and 401k Plan Sponsors are Using this New System to Replace Outdated Modern Portfolio Theory Risk Tools

The GOT system offers a viable and practical alternative to relying on outdated MPT tools. Although still widely in use, MPT-based calculators and analyzers can sometimes lead retirement savers to make decisions that aren’t in their best interest. That statement alone should trigger concerns from the mindful fiduciary.

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A Better Way to Set Retirement Goals

    A Better Way to Set Retirement Goals

So one wants his epitaph to read “Here lies John Doe. He beat the S&P 500.” There needs to be an easy-to-understand and easy-to-implement system that properly reflects both your goals and the consequences of failing to meet those goals. Retirement savers want and need a system that represents a better way to set and meet retirement goals.

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The Folly of Risk and the 401k Fiduciary

    The Folly of Risk and the 401k Fiduciary

Many professionals and most of the current generation of finance professors have long ago removed “risk” from their investment decision-making algorithms. These forward-thinking folks recognize the greater importance of managing retirement saver behavior over managing irrelevant investment risk as it pertains to meeting or exceeding the goal of retiring in comfort.

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FiduciaryNews.com Trending Topics for ERISA Plan Sponsors: Week Ending 6/16/17

    FiduciaryNews.com Trending Topics for ERISA Plan Sponsors: Week Ending 6/16/17

HSA in fiduciary cross-hairs, fiduciary first thoughts, and a new investment hope.

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FiduciaryNews.com Trending Topics for ERISA Plan Sponsors: Week Ending 6/2/17

    FiduciaryNews.com Trending Topics for ERISA Plan Sponsors: Week Ending 6/2/17

Retirement policy conflicts, shifting sands of fiduciary, and turning the screw on MPT.

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When is it OK (and not OK) to mix TDFs with other funds?

    When is it OK (and not OK) to mix TDFs with other funds?

Investing through mutual funds, including TDFs, is like using mass transportation. It’s not ideal but for many it’s the only realistic choice.

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FiduciaryNews.com Trending Topics for ERISA Plan Sponsors: Week Ending 9/9/16

    FiduciaryNews.com Trending Topics for ERISA Plan Sponsors: Week Ending 9/9/16

A signpost of hope, the other (Fiduciary) shoe, and an emperor unclothed.

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