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Marcia Wagner: I do not anticipate a rush by plan sponsors to modify their investment platform.

Waving the flag of 'capital formation,' SEC promises to let the genie out of the bottle, allowing private funds in 401(k) plans; DOL silent

Right now, SEC limits which advisors can sell alts and who can legally buy them, blocking any realistic chance of putting $4-trillion 401(k) cache in Wall Street crosshairs

July 3, 2019 at 11:15 PM

Lou Harvey: They're giving advice for free and everyone else will have a dickens of a time beating a zero cost offering.

How Fidelity used a robo-advice exemption to stick the landing as a fiduciary to 401(k) participants after the tumult of the DOL rule

The Boston king of DC plans had to withdraw from advising plan sponsors but followed a 12-year-old rule that permits a 'computer model' for the little guys

October 11, 2018 at 3:37 PM

Jason Roberts: What caught me off guard is that Fidelity says it is going to give advice to plans and participants.

Why exactly Fidelity chose 2018 to levy visible .05% 401(k) surcharge on Vanguard funds

After an abrupt business model shift from recordkeeper to advisor, the Boston-based 401(k) king may be a leader in fee 'levelization' that encourages other fund firms to act

February 9, 2018 at 6:10 PM

Lou Harvey: One of the ways to attack the reasonableness of the regulation is to allege that it is 'arbitrary and capricious,' which the complaint does repeatedly.

Why SIFMA & Co.'s trip to a friendly North Texas court to upend the DOL rule looks more like its Alamo

Little credence is being afforded anti-DOL rule crowd that is trying to flip the script on who is screwing whom

June 6, 2016 at 9:47 PM

Lou Harvey: It does mean that annuity sales will no longer be a 'caveat emptor' type of transaction.

'Paradigm shift' in 401(k) flows opens the DOL door for annuities in 401(k) plans and RIAs are split

In the wake of DOL and Treasury rulings, some fiduciaries, certainly not all, seem willing to give the oft-reviled instruments a chance

October 28, 2014 at 6:27 PM

Ron Rhoades: Shouldn't the phrase: 'member, FINRA' be viewed like the warnings on cigarette packages -- i.e., as a consumer warning sign?

FINRA's scandalous litany of failures and its efforts to redefine the true fiduciary standard out of existence

Our one-man think tank continues his scathing indictment of the SRO's disingenuous and downright fraudulent practices

July 17, 2013 at 3:10 AM

Terrence Morgan: 401(k) plan sponsors are finally ... discovering ... that all their friendly stockbroker could do was hand out enrollment kits and pat their employees on the back.

Cerulli: RIAs and hybrid RIAs make giant advances on banks and wirehouses in the 401(k) race

DOL guidance is making a difference and so is bank and wirehouse reluctance to take on fiduciary risk

September 27, 2012 at 3:48 AM

Lou Harvey: The rules on the participant side are a joke.

After years of DOL bluster, new 401(k) rules appear to make RIAs' low expenses look higher than those of brokers

It's the same old problem of mutual fund-paid fees arriving by tunnel and therefore getting a pass in disclosures; DOL no-comments the issue

June 18, 2012 at 3:28 AM

Blaine Aikin: Regardless of what happens to regulatory reform, we expect to do really well.

Private equity strikes again, this time quietly buying control of fi360 for $11.5 million

Bluff Point Associates principals liked the recurring revenues and bright growth prospects

April 10, 2012 at 5:41 AM

Michael Francis: It's my belief that they shouldn't be fiduciaries because they can't be according to the way the law is set up.

Merrill Lynch jumps on the fiduciary bandwagon in retirement plans but critics see lingering conflicts

Morgan Stanley, UBS and Wells Fargo Advisors already went this route but can wirehouses really deliver strict fiduciary care?

April 3, 2012 at 3:59 AM

Lou Harvey: It's really going to annoy the hell out of the plan sponsors.

Which three of DOL's new 401(k) rules represent the biggest land mines for financial advisors and plan sponsors

Accepting gifts, estimating fees and using asset allocation models all demand treading lightly

February 14, 2012 at 6:06 AM

Lou Harvey: This gives them a huge edge on Fidelty.

Schwab to make long-awaited move in 401(k) market with an all-indexed mutual fund and ETF strategy

Market leader Fidelity not likely to mirror the move because of its legacy structure

February 10, 2011 at 2:50 PM

Tea Partiers such as Michele Bachmann may change the enforcement landscape for investment advisors by putting some agencies on starvation budgets.

The 7 government actions that could reshape the advisory business in 2011

Funding may derail some grand plans, but regulations roll on (and so do tax threats)

January 7, 2011 at 1:49 PM

Michael Henkel: He is passionate about moving independent advisors into the retirement plan market, but says that for now, advisors lack the tools to succeed there.

Yesterday's proposed DOL regs underscore why default investments are the 401(k) market's giant untapped opportunity

Regulators' so-far soft approach on target date funds leaves door open for advisors to compete

November 30, 2010 at 4:35 AM

Lou Harvey: “The demand for lower fees by 72 million participants and their families and 483,000 employers can awaken a sleeping giant that places similar demand on virtually every investment and financial product.

How advisors can position themselves for the coming 401(k) boom

Tips on becoming the educator of choice; and a framework for thinking about plan restructuring

November 10, 2010 at 5:26 AM

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