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5 Underreported 401k Stories From The Summer Of 2025
Not all impactful changes come from courtrooms or market forecasts. Sometimes the quietest adjustments happen in the administrative framework of retirement plans. This summer, two such moves stood out as underreported 401k stories that carry both promise and peril for fiduciaries.
401k AI Fiduciary Traps Spark ERISA Questions
AI fiduciary traps refer to compliance risks arising from inaccurate, biased, or undocumented AI outputs in 401k plan administration. Do you think the tort bar is salivating over this, waiting for that inevitable misstep?
How Johnson v. Parker-Hannifin Impacts Professional Fiduciaries And 401k Plan Sponsors
What’s one way 401k plan sponsors can ensure they establish a due diligence framework that can best reduce their fiduciary liability?
What Do You Think Of These Auto-Enrollment/Auto-Escalation Trends?
Overall, nearly 1 in 5 companies still have not adopted auto-enrollment. There are common reasons why companies would not include auto-enrollment in their plans.
The Fiduciary Duty to Investigate Conflicts-of-Interests with “Zero” and “Negative” Fee Funds
Whatever the future holds, we live in a present where there is no such thing as a free lunch; thus, the basic notion of caveat emptor continues to hold true.
Exclusive Interview: David Levine: 401k Plan Sponsors Must Separate These Fiduciary Rule Facts from Fiction
“This uncertainty can be very challenging for plan sponsors. If I have to give some basic words of advice to plan sponsors, I simply say ‘stop and take a breath.’”
FiduciaryNews.com Trending Topics for ERISA Plan Sponsors: Week Ending 1/15/16
The State in Flux, “Fiduciary” as product, and 12b-1 redux.
FiduciaryNews Trending Topics for ERISA Plan Sponsors: Week Ending 10/11/13
Gov Wants Your Retirement, Spirit of Fiduciary and are plan sponsors too patronizing when it comes to investments?
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