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Explore the latest developments from Principal Financial Group on 401k Specialist, featuring updates on their innovative 401(k) plans, investment strategies, and digital enhancements aimed at optimizing retirement savings and improving financial literacy for both employers and participants.
401k Firms Recive Letters Over Fiduciary Rule
Sen. Elizabeth Warren wants to know how 401k firms and similar financial services companies are handling a possible…
January 19, 2017
401k Fiduciary Rule ‘Hostile Takeover of Financial Industry by Lawyers’
Ask Charlie Epstein about the fiduciary rule, and expect an earful. Epstein, America’s self-proclaimed 401k Coach, estimates that…
October 3, 2016
What 403(b) Plan Participants are Doing Right
They’re better than the rest of us in every way. Not only do non-profit organizations and their employees…
August 22, 2016
401(k) Advisors, Check Your Anti-Annuity Bias
Too many 401(k) advisors, and financial advisors in general, treat annuities as a four-letter word, but they might…
June 12, 2016
The Top 10 401(k) Target Date Funds Are …
This is just getting boring. The big three—Vanguard, Fidelity and T. Rowe Price—extended their lead in BrightScope’s latest…
September 29, 2015
401(k) Participants Flock to Multi-Asset Class Investment Approach
Between 2013 and 2015, the number of investors indicating they would use multi-asset class funds in the subsequent…
September 29, 2015
Target Date Funds Increasingly Add Alternative Options to 401(k)s
Alternative investments continue their march, and are now being added to target-date funds. The Wall Street Journal reports…
September 14, 2015