Today, the average 401(k) retirement plan relies heavily on the non-expert decisions of plan participants, who typically have no formal financial training. Because they lack financial expertise, ...
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Top Rookie Mistakes When Evaluating your 401(k) & 403(b) Target Date Funds
Benjamin Smith, CFA 14 December, 2016
$823 billion dollars of assets currently reside in Target Date Funds as of June 30, 2016, according to Morningstar Research. ¹ Also, forty cents of every new dollar going into DC plans is invested in ...
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Improving Plan Operation, Cost, & Investment Structure: A 401(k) Case Study
A.J. Walker, AIF ® 07 December, 2016
The Challenge This client had been using the services of an insurance company bundled retirement plan product for over ten years with no service or fee benchmarking over that time frame. The client ...
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The Question No One Asks About Stable Value Funds
Benjamin Smith, CFA 30 November, 2016
57% of 401(k) and 403(b) retirement plans offered a stable value or investment contract fund to participants in 2015, and 19% of participants offered this investment actually utilized the fund in ...
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The 3 Questions an ERISA Compliance Checklist Will Answer
A.J. Walker, AIF ® 07 November, 2016
For the fiscal year ending September 2013, the Department of Labor (DOL) closed 3,677 investigations on defined contribution retirement plans. Of that amount, 775 (21%) were triggered by participant ...
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Capital Markets Review - Third Quarter 2016
Benjamin Smith, CFA 03 November, 2016
The Presidential Election Heats Up.... Global economies are turning their eyes to the US presidential election. Although world markets and economies absorb this leadership change every four years, ...
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