Even without these extremes, this asset class brings with it a roller coaster experience, something many retirement savers wonât be able to stomach.
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More sophisticated plan participants who can afford to hire their own adviser. They donât ask more from the plan. They ask for less, in hopes of gaining more control over their own destiny. For a variety of reasons, this isnât as easy as some participants would like it to be.
Just as these changes come bearing down, so, too, does a need for greater hand holding. Pressures within the provider industry, however, appear to be reducing the number of available hands.
Itâs been around for a while, but NetFlix et al have made âbinge-watchingâ a social norm. Is this habit about to trickle down into 401k education and financial literacy in general?
If the numbers donât add up for annuities (or anything else, for that matter), where is the demand for these products coming from?
This isnât to say younger employees should be left out of this type of education altogether. They shouldnât. Itâs important the message is drip, drip, dripped from the beginning of the onboarding sequence.
You might think you can ignore PEPs. And you might be in for a surprise.
This has long been demanded of fiduciaries. Nearly two centuries ago in Harvard College v. Amory, the Massachusetts court promulgated what has become known as the âprudent man rule.â
