401k plan sponsors can’t afford to fall victim to the lure of heuristics. Index funds can generate just as much fiduciary headaches as actively managed funds.
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Including these will make 401k plans safer for plan sponsors and more successful for plan participants.
Here’s quick read with a surprise reveal. Can you find it?
Are you afraid you might freak out if you see the results of a bad quarter reflected in the statement you are about to open? Read this and learn how to train yourself to avoid making rash (and wrong) decisions.
Why are financial professionals more likely to embrace behavioral finance and how can this help the average investor?
Never belittle the question or the person asking the question. These are sincere queries that represent commonly held beliefs. These beliefs live a Schrodinger Cat-like existence, being generally not quite true and not quite false. It’s critical, for the benefit of all retirement savers, that these questions be asked and that fiduciaries encourage their asking. This is the only way that allows the fiduciary to respond in the second noteworthy way: By using these questions to refute misconceptions and promote good retirement saving decision-making.
Government gangsters, boxers, and fee mongers.
Remember, it’s not what you know that’s important, it’s knowing that you don’t know what’s important that’s important.
In a year that was marked with uncertainty, the biggest development of 2016 might be that it just didn’t matter.
FiduciaryNews.com Trending Topics for ERISA Plan Sponsors: Week Ending 11/24/17
Celebrating a week of thankfulness, for bad news headlines, continuing interest in fees, and that ever open mind searching for the “coming (investment) thing.”