How the DOL’s New ESG Rule Would Affect Retirement Advisors
The Department of Labor is considering a regulation that would limit how environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing can appear in retirement plans.
Data Made Simple: How to Interpret Larkspur Executive’s Graphs
Show your fees are reasonable How to plot historical trends Costs vary by participants and AUM Tunnelvision can disguise weaknesses Interpreting data can be difficult, but here’s how Larkspur Executive...Read More
What Happens When Money Falls From The Sky?
The CARES ACT is not TARP CARES will help with the restart in a few ways Americans are getting $1200 this month but what about inflation? Short-run Economic Effects of...Read More
Here’s How You Can Take The Offensive While Competitors Hunker Down
Take the offensive during this financial downturn Plan Sponsors are under pressure from Participants Make your marketing seamless and automatic Set it and forget it Take the offensive during this...Read More
Learn how to do Content Marketing the Right Way as a Financial Advisor
Our recent marketing articles focused on how to market the content an advisor already has in place but we haven't focussed enough on creating original content.
How advisors can avoid excessive fees lawsuits and become better fiduciaries at the same time
As we can see from the news excessive fee lawsuits are not going away. It makes a lot of sense that it continues to happen because people smell money. The...Read More
5 Ways to Explain Fiduciary Duty to Your Prospects and Clients
There’s a lot of talk out there on what it means to be a fiduciary and how it is beneficial to the clients to understand the difference between who is...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,...Read More
Case Study: Here is How a Prudent Process Approach Prevails
Litigation against plan sponsors is nothing new. But in the aftermath of the financial crisis of 2007-2008, the number of excessive fee lawsuits that were brought by participants in 401(k) has increased. Tibble vs. Edison, decided in 2017, was one of the most famous cases in which the plaintiffs claimed that executives of the Edison International Inc.
What are the Best Ways to Avoid a 401K Fiduciary Lawsuit?
There are general guidelines provided by ERISA to follow by plan fiduciaries to avoid any unpleasant surprises in their practice when working with retirement plans. To successfully avoid any litigation...Read More