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DOL’s New Performance Reporting Requirements: A Boon or a Risk to the 401k Fiduciary?
The DOL’s new requirements offer some good and some bad news. The question is do the benefits of the good offset the dangers of the bad? Discover both in this article.
Fiduciary News Trending Topics for ERISA Plan Sponsors: Week Ending 12/17/10
Is this the week that signaled the beginning of the bond bubble bust? What ETFs need to be a game changer. Why can’t brokers survive serving smaller clients while advisers don’t have any problem? A new twist in the pension problem surfaces.
Exclusive Interview: Mike Alfred Provides Insight into BrightScope’s 2nd Annual List of the Top 30 401k Plans
Should mutual funds give fee breaks to large plans only? See what BrightScope’s Mike Alfred says.
401k 2.0 – A Proposal
Isn’t it ironic that the very people who 401k plans were created to benefit have decided it’s easier to ignore the maze than to constructively participate. Allowing the 401k to evolve up to today’s technology will solve many problems.
Fiduciary News Trending Topics for ERISA Plan Sponsors: Week Ending 11/26/10
Some surprises of shoddy reporting in what might normally be considered a quiet week. And some good reporting, too.
Fiduciary News Trending Topics for ERISA Plan Sponsors: Week Ending 11/19/10
Join us in giving thanks to all the news that 401k plans generate. There’s a special gem this week – maybe a hint at how the SEC will rule on the fiduciary standard.
New Study Explains Why the 401k Match FAILs
Pre-publication draft of new study sheds new light on the value – or lack thereof – of 401k matching and participant education. In a Fiduciary News exclusive, one of the study’s authors suggests a solution.
Top 10 Reasons 401k Plan Sponsors Fear ETFs Not Ready For Primetime
With even insiders questioning their appropriateness, it’s easy to understand why 401k plan sponsors continue to feel uncomfortable with ETFs. What exactly did these experts say?
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