Capital Expenditures vs Share Buybacks: How Do Investors Want Companies to Spend?
I recently published an article discussing an op-ed written by Chuck Schumer and Bernie Sanders where one of the ideas they put forth was to create a (undefined) mechanism to discourage corporate buybacks. Recently Marco Rubio joined in with his own version of the same theme (still scant on details, but at least he...Read More
15 Weekly Stats for Financial Advisors: Week of March 4, 2019
Matt Meyer and Michael Robinson are founders of The BluePrint Insurance Services. Their mission is to be the premier insurance partner for RIAs and comprehensive financial advisors. The BluePrint provides an operational insurance platform that allows our partners to provide the highest level of insurance access and support. We feature this weekly update with permission:...Read More
Up Next: NJ Secure Choice Savings Program
New Jersey is the latest state, along with Maryland, Connecticut, New York, Washington state, Vermont, Massachusetts, Oregon, California, and Illinois, to establish a state-run retirement savings plan for private-sector employees whose employers do not offer a retirement plan. Though there are various concerns about the states running the retirement plans such as administrative capabilities, management...Read More
Case Study: Setting up Account Settings for More Accurate Proposal in 401kFiduciaryOptimizer
The Ask: In order to create a nice proposal for a prospect, you need to make sure it includes all the best investment options. On the one hand, they should be good in terms of fees and performance, which might interest a plan sponsor, and they should correspond to your provider platform requirements, on the...Read More
Case Study: How to Identify High Net Worth Leads in Your Area
Our client has a broad list of potential prospects available to search from through our Prospects of Wealth 2.0 database, but they want to be able to narrow down this massive list into a more refined list. For example, they specifically may want to offer their services to prospects with a large amount of savings that are approaching retirement soon.
Fidelity is facing more litigation from plan participants
While we’ve been talking about new lawsuits coming out every day, just yesterday InvestmentNews.com reported that Fidelity is facing more litigation from plan participants, this time for the T-Mobile 401(k) plan. The plaintiff is alleging that Fidelity was charging “secret” fees to participants on their mutual funds. For example, if the 12b-1 or revenue sharing...Read More
3 Updates on Current Fiduciary Lawsuits
We often talk about living in a “fiduciary era”, and new lawsuits are still a big part of it. Plan sponsors are facing lawsuits for excessive fees, poor performing funds, and a lack of looking out for participants’ best interest. Here are a few examples we’ve noticed of the continuing trend: Setting Precedent The fiduciary...Read More
Active vs ETFs: Do active funds give you what you pay for?
Most fund managers justify the higher fees associated with the fund by explaining that their skill will allow them to deliver better results than the index. We have taken a unique perspective to examine this argument. Our approach is based around our fee-saving software which allows retirement plan advisors to identify cheaper but similar funds...Read More
Case Study: Identifying Fiduciary Risks with the Right Tools
Our client is able to review and analyze virtually every defined contribution plan in the country using the Larkspur Executive. They specialize in acting as a fiduciary to the plan and helping plan sponsors to avoid fiduciary liability themselves. When hunting for new prospects they need a variety of specialized indicators can tell them if a plan may be at fiduciary risk so they can market their services to these prospects.
15 Weekly Stats for Financial Advisors: Week of February 25, 2019
Matt Meyer and Michael Robinson are founders of The BluePrint Insurance Services. Their mission is to be the premier insurance partner for RIAs and comprehensive financial advisors. The BluePrint provides an operational insurance platform that allows our partners to provide the highest level of insurance access and support. We feature this weekly update with permission:...Read More