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Participants using mutual funds with active management pay for their passively managed brethren; with fiduciary issues being taken for real, this is a problem
The commission says Ray Lucia back-testing is questionable but some high-profile defenders take his side
The expected RIA field day and B-D comeuppance may come limping out of the gate; Fidelity has put 17 million 401(k) disclosures in the mail with few follks batting an eye -- with high-balance participants as the possible big exception
The policy reversal on on self-directed accounts is a win for white-collar workers but the agency's mandating-by-bulletin was equally troubling to some observers
The wrinkle aimed at self-directed accounts is seen as an unnecessary eleventh hour blindsiding by Fidelity, TD and the CFDD among a broad constituency
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
Accepting gifts, estimating fees and using asset allocation models all demand treading lightly
The new teeth in the rules went unnoticed by many people amid other changes
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