Following fiduciary best practices strengthens client relationships and makes them more enduring.
The incoming head of the Employee Benefits Security Administration may pursue new regulations around 401(k) issues such as annuities.
Shockingly few retirement plan participants know much about investment fees or even read fee disclosures.
The SEC likely will adopt the DOL's definition of fiduciary, and put a rule in place by the end of 2019.
Abiding a well-crafted IPS can help minimize legal trouble for plan fiduciaries.
Abiding a well-crafted IPS can help minimize legal trouble for plan fiduciaries.
Harmonizing between federal agencies and state regulators is a complex task in everyone's best interest.
Self-regulation could yield less government intervention and greater firm flexibility to satisfy fiduciary principles.
How financial advisers can help clients face the threat of outliving retirement savings
A fiduciary process involves a full understanding of what should be done, rather than what can be done.