Articles tagged "Pension Resource Institute"
Headline
Publish date
Schwab employee 401(k) lawsuit taunts Chuck by using Vanguard as Exhibit A
The San Francisco giant is latest to get hit with legal scourge; Ameriprise and Fidelity already shelled out megabucks to settle claims that their retirement funds underperform and charge a lot to do it – but not Vanguard
March 8, 2017 at 6:34 PM
DOL rule-killers now on defense as legal failures add up, reinforcements don't make it to Washington and the clock ticks down
Cumulative effect of Puzder and Scaramucci implosions and looming April 10 go date shifts momentum to the rule's standard bearers
February 15, 2017 at 6:32 PM
'Forum-shopped' Texas judge, refusing to play along, torpedoes Wall Street's efforts to stay the DOL rule -- narrowing chances of an end run by Trump and stockbrokers
DOL rule's would-be killers face the quagmire of law-making; Chief Judge Barbara Lynn grilled DOL, promised that it signaled nothing, and that turned out to be true
February 9, 2017 at 2:46 AM
How Trump's backtrack on DOL rule burned his most ardent anti-rule supporters and the opening Elizabeth Warren is exploiting
Threat of losing DOL rule sparks a new public consciousness and the Massachusetts Senator gives shout-out to Betterment, XY Planning and BlackRock
February 7, 2017 at 10:46 PM
Using DOL as cover, Bank of America cuts the Merrill Lynch bull as it adds a robo, stops paying brokers to stick around and kicks John Thiel upstairs
The Charlotte, N.C.-based lending giant bagged the Wall Street beast in 2009 when the price was right -- now it's cutting off its traditional food supply
October 18, 2016 at 10:41 PM
Why SIFMA & Co.'s trip to a friendly North Texas court to upend the DOL rule looks more like its Alamo
Little credence is being afforded anti-DOL rule crowd that is trying to flip the script on who is screwing whom
June 6, 2016 at 9:47 PM
How the DOL brought the IRS wolf to the RIA door with its 'rule' -- think IRAs
The Internal Revenue Service was always the IRA cop for individuals but now advisors may answer to the tax man
May 13, 2016 at 10:19 PM
DOL glows and Invesco glowers over $10 million settlement of alleged ERISA infraction
Labor Department's Phyllis Borzi praises Invesco Trust Company for 'stepping up' but the Atlanta fund company says it did nothing wrong and was merely extracting itself from DOL overreach
May 3, 2016 at 7:34 PM
Why luring 401(k) assets to IRA rollovers in a post-DOL-rule world remains child's play, which keeps $7.6 trillion in the IRA game and growing
Clients still hate 401(k) inflexibility around withdrawals and the DOL granted advisors the upper hand in getting clients to sign away protections with regard to pricier products
April 20, 2016 at 8:25 PM
Will the alternative assets Intel added to its 401(k) plan backfire legally as well as financially?
New lawsuit alleges that spicing the DC plans with $2.5 billion of bets on de facto dark pools of 'shudder'-worthy alternatives cost participants hundreds of millions of dollars
November 12, 2015 at 8:55 PM
Capitalizing on 'unintended consequences' of DOL changes, Ken Fisher pounces on a fat-margin 401(k) opportunity
DOL greased the skids for closed-architecture approach of $60-billion RIA -- as long as it is discloses use of proprietary funds and sets flat fees that apply to them
October 15, 2015 at 5:28 PM
After cutting 401(k) middlemen out backfires, Schwab cuts them back in
The problem for Walt Bettinger's newfangled Index Advantage DC plans was that for three years only $10 billion of assets showed up in an atmosphere of self-direction
August 6, 2015 at 5:17 PM
After growth dip, BrightScope takes a whirl at mutual fund data -- but in a way that Morningstar claims it bypassed
The La Jolla RIA-tracker will gear data toward the 401(k) market and knock down a paywall
June 11, 2015 at 7:09 PM
How 12(b)-1 fees and revenue sharing may be the real victims of Monday's 'narrow' Supreme Court ruling
By unanimous decision, a conservative nine showed no tolerance for retail mutual fund share classes that achieve such status with fat fees that directly or indirectly pay 401(k) administration freight
May 20, 2015 at 4:18 PM
Why exactly DOL's latest action is so shocking to so many brokers -- and even ERISA lawyers -- despite years of warnings
Brokers managing IRA assets never imagined they'd need to make a written promise to do right by investors
