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4 Liability Reducing Strategies for Today’s 401k Plan Sponsor (Part II)
These three issues linger like a ticking time bomb. They’re out there. They’re going to go off at some point. We just don’t know when. Plan fiduciaries need to get ready for them.
Will 401k World Change by Fall? 3 Pressing Regulatory Issues 401k Plan Sponsors Need to Know Right Now (Part I of II)
These next three months may prove a watershed for 401k plan sponsors as new rules will dramatically alter how 401k plan sponsors manage their companies’ retirement plans.
9 Free On-Line DOL Resources for 401k Plan Sponsors
Where’s the best place for the 401k plan sponsor to go for free help on their fiduciary duties and responsibilities?
Yale/Harvard Study Reveals Disturbing 401k Fee Paradox
If the DOL requires the 401k plan fiduciary to ignore a fund’s investment performance, but the SEC still requires funds to disclose that performance, which will 401k investors choose? More importantly, who’s left holding the liability bag?
Is the Fiduciary Standard Enough? 3 Critical Fiduciary Duties Every ERISA Plan Sponsor Must Know
Will Congress, the SEC and the DOL upgrade the current fiduciary standard to the trust model used by bank trust departments so successfully for more than a century?
CITs in 401ks: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
As usual, be careful about elixirs marketed as cure-alls. Personally involved in creating CITs in the early 1990s specifically to market to 401k plans, I’ll share my experiences with you here.
Readers Select Top Fiduciary Stories of 2009: #4 Caterpillar Settlement
$16.5 million is a large price to pay for disclosure and due diligence a plan fiduciary can simply and consistently address. This may be the easiest action a 401k plan fiduciary to take to prevent the camel from sticking his nose under the tent.
DOL Releases New Investment Advice Rule: More (or Less?) Trouble for the 401k Fiduciary
The question now on the mind of every 401k fiduciary: Will the DOL’s new rule increase my personal fiduciary liability?
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