Like a car’s top-end gear, in the big picture 401k investing decisions are less powerful than most think.
Tag "risk"
Exposed as misleading as early as 1999, should 401k plan sponsors continue to risk increasing their fiduciary liability by condoning their use?
Here’s a win-win idea for both 401k investors and their fiduciaries.
What worked in the past might mislead today. Worse, it might not include everything it needs to include. Find out what’s still useful, what isn’t and what needs to be added.
Deloitte’s annual survey produces two shockers: One explains why annuities aren’t as popular as the press makes them out to be, the other, well…
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.
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.
Here are three easy practices a 401k plan fiduciary can implement to avoid one of the common investing mistakes identified by researchers in the field of behavioral finance.
FiduciaryNews Trending Topics for ERISA Plan Sponsors: Week Ending 7/27/12
Public pensions – an idea whose time has passed, self-directed peril, guess what’s happened because of fee disclosure and crazy mixed up investors.