Has the traditional 401k world – everything from how investments are sold to whether fees really matter – just turned on its head?
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Public pensions – an idea whose time has passed, self-directed peril, guess what’s happened because of fee disclosure and crazy mixed up investors.
Corporate pension woes continue as the industry tries to regulate itself before the regulators do and everybody’s talking about fees.
More fallout on DOL’s limit on 401k menu options, the further decline of public pension plans, the hidden fiduciary trap of shareholder activism and more surprises about 401k investing.
When pensions go bad, the irony of fiduciary marketing, more fee bloodshed expected and the diminishing importance of investments.
Meddling politicians, the infantile Fiduciary debate, a DOL surprise and a totally backwards approach to giving investment advice – what more can you ask for?
The SIFMA has no Clothes, the next investment fad and “Are you Ready for some Fee-Ball?”
In a week that we featured Investment Due Diligence for 401k plans, a major court ruling shows what happened without such due diligence.
Now we know why Washington has been dissing the 401k, why we lost the war for the fiduciary standard and why investors keep losing money.
FiduciaryNews Trending Topics for ERISA Plan Sponsors: Week Ending 8/10/12
Social Security reaches dour milestone while San Diego gets a thumbs up to punt its pension plan and a new meaning of fee disclosure.