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BY NAPA Net Staff 8/18/2017
Lawsuits alleging breach of fiduciary duty related to the selection of capital preservation investment options should serve as a caution to DC plan fiduciaries of the plaintiffs’ bar’s growing interest in this asset class, as well as the processes used in selecting and monitoring these options.A...
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BY Nevin E. Adams, JD 8/18/2017
More than 2,000 votes have already been cast – and the leading topic wasn’t even on the list a week ago.On Monday, we opened up voting on topics for the 2018 NAPA 401(k) Summit Agenda. We started out with a great list – but NAPA-Net readers have already added a dozen potential topics for...
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BY Nevin E. Adams, JD 8/18/2017
A federal court has extended the reach of an employment arbitration agreement to require a participant to first arbitrate, rather than sue a plan’s investment advisor.Significantly, the decision in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York drew a distinction between the...
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BY NAPA Net Staff 8/18/2017
The stock market has been on a tear of late – 29 record closes for the S&P 500 through July 31, and five of those in July alone. So, how have 401(k) participants responded?Well, according to the Alight Solutions (previously Aon Hewitt) 401(k) Index, July turned out to be the lightest trading...
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BY Ted Godbout 8/17/2017
Financial stress and everyday money matters are hindering Americans’ retirement savings efforts and affecting the job performance of many employees, a new nationwide survey reveals.Consisting of 1,000 workers with access to a 401(k) plan with half actively contributing to their plan and half not...
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BY NAPA Net Staff 8/17/2017
While most small businesses do not offer retirement benefits, the large majority (72%) of businesses that do found it beneficial, citing talent attraction, turnover minimization and personal need among the top reasons, according to recent survey results.In its survey of 318 small- to mid-sized...
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BY Nevin E. Adams, JD 8/17/2017
Nearly a decade to the day that Glenn Tibble, William Bauer, William Izral, Henry Runowiecki, Frederik Sohadolc, and Hugh Tinman, Jr. filed their excessive fee class action known as Tibble v. Edison, they may be nearing the conclusion of a case that has gone all the way to the United States Supreme...
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BY Lisa Greenwald 8/17/2017
Though the Retirement Confidence Survey, conducted annually by Greenwald & Associates and EBRI for the past 28 years, generally reveals how dire Americans’ retirement preparations really are (and in many ways, they are), this year’s RCS findings give me some hope that Millennials (or Gen Y) are...
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BY Ted Godbout 8/16/2017
Interest in sustainable investing has held steady, and in some cases, has grown. And this is particularly true among individual investors, led by Millennials who increasingly see this as a desirable element of their investment portfolio, according to new survey results.Morgan Stanley’s Institute...
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BY John Carl 8/16/2017
The ERISA consultants at the Learning Center Resource Desk, which is available through Columbia Threadneedle Investments, regularly receive calls from financial advisors on a broad array of technical topics related to IRAs and qualified retirement plans. Responding to a question from an advisor in...
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