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Ron Rhoades explains how and why we lost the fiduciary standard and why that might be a good thing for bona fide fiduciaries.
“Studies have shown that the largest factor in determining the success level of retirement savers is their level of savings.”
In choosing ratings points over debate points, Smith sacrificed the logic of the straight-forward for the pyrotechnics of a religious argument, and, in doing so, lost credibility with that portion of his audience that knew better.
In that drive for ratings points, producers often – willingly or unwillingly – must make a pact with the devil.
If they only stayed on the straight and narrow path, they would have proved their point.
A warning is not the same as protection.
Will 401k plan sponsors find themselves in the same sorry position as the unfortunate bartender who served one too many drinks?
What the stress test of Q3 2011 tells us about what the Target Date Fund industry learned from 2008 – and what it didn’t.
Why I’m Thankful for the 401k
I’m old enough to remember a world before the 401k. So distant was this anomaly in the tax code, that I, like nearly everyone else, was unaware of its existence, let alone its significance when it was formulated in 1978. What makes this more ironic was that it was my Congressman, Barber Conable, that led the way.