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How Will Fiduciary Rule Impact E&O Coverage?
This isn’t your parents’ E&O insurance. Worries over the exposure that could result from the Department of Labor’s…
RIAs Far Out in Front with 401(k) Advice: TD Ameritrade
Plan sponsors want it; RIAs have it. A new survey from TD Ameritrade Institutional finds RIAs “provide 401(k)…
Why No One Cares About ‘Fiduciary’
Well over a third of advisors responding to a new survey deemed 401(k) fiduciary meaningless—the term, that is.…
A New Twist in the 401(k) Fiduciary Fight?
And so it begins. The effects of the Department of Labor’s Interpretive Bulletin 2015-01, released on Oct. 26,…
Why Custom 401(k) Target Date Funds are Flaming Hot (And How Not to Get Burned)
The hottest assets in 401(k)-land are target date funds (TDFs), which blew through the $1 trillion mark in…
House Members Working on Bipartisan Alternative to DOL Proposal
More trouble on the DOL fiduciary front (or not, depending on your perspective). A group of lawmakers in…
Hug it Out: Signs of Resolution in The Passive vs. Active Management Debate?
Like the Hatfields and McCoys (or “tastes great-less filling”), it’s seemingly raged forever, but will the active vs.…
Passive Boom: $1 trillion Could Move to Index Funds if Fiduciary Rule Implemented
Here’ another reason to love or hate the Department of Labor’s fiduciary rule (depending on one’s perspective). Reuters…
401(k) Financial Advisors: Don’t Be a Corpse
HISTORY IS LITTERED WITH the corpses of large corporations that didn’t understand (or willfully ignored) changes in their…
401(k) Fiduciary Fear: How It’s Causing Product Selection Blunders
Fear drives behavior—who’d have thunk? New research from Boston-based global analytics firm Cerulli Associates finds that fiduciary fears…