Topic
401(k)
519 published works
Labor Law Prof Blog
Secunda on 401Ks
Paul Secunda (Marquette) has just posted on SSRN his essay (forthcoming ABA Tax Section NewsQuarterly) 401K Follies and the Need to Reinvigorate the U.S. Annuity Market. Here's the abstract:Even given…
Pennsylvania Fiduciary Litigation
Is your 401(k) advisor buying retail?
Retail mutual fund shares are classes A, B and C. They differ in the amounts of internal 12-b1 fees and also on the loads, or sales charges. Read about it here: …
Boston ERISA & Insurance Litigation Blog
Pay Now and Later: High Plan Fees Pose an Increasing Risk of Fiduciary Exposure
Chip, chip, chip. No, that’s not the sound of the polar ice caps shedding ice, although I suppose it could well be. It’s the sound of the Fortress Europa that…
Boston ERISA & Insurance Litigation Blog
Breach of Fiduciary Duty Litigation: When the Best Defense is a Good Offense
Anyone who writes anything for a long time, as I have this blog, cannot help but end up with certain recurring themes. When it comes to the management of 401(k)…
The Retirement Plan Blog
401(k) plan sponsors asking “Can you hear me now?”
By Jerry Kalish
I could have gone with Verizon's "Can You Hear Me Now" Guy as my visual metaphor for this blog post. But then I found out that there isn’t one “Can…
Boston ERISA & Insurance Litigation Blog
Can the Deepwater Horizon Spill Sink the Fiduciaries of BP’s 401(k) Plan as Well?
Well, someone thinks so. You can count me, though, as monstrously skeptical that you could tag the fiduciaries of the BP 401(k) plan with breach of fiduciary duty for overexposure…
The Retirement Plan Blog
Revisiting communicating 401(k) and Marshall McLuhan
By Jerry Kalish
Our friend Roger Wohlner, a fee-only financial planner, who blogs at Chicago Financial Planner, sent me an email after reading the Marshall McLuhan reference in yesterday's post, Communicating 401(k): Is…
Pension Risk Matters
401(k) Plans, Mutual Funds and Derivatives – Hello SEC
Given that mutual funds are a popular 401(k) plan choice, it's not surprising that further regulatory scrutiny of the use of derivatives by traders is underway. "SEC Staff Evaluating the…
The Retirement Plan Blog
Communicating 401(k): Is the medium the message?
By Jerry Kalish
If you’re not of my generation, then let me introduce you to Marshall McLuhan by way of this YouTube video. [embed]http://www.youtube.com/v/A7GvQdDQv8g&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x2b405b&color2=0x6b8ab6&border=1[/embed] McLuhan, one of the visionary thinkers in the momentous…
Boston ERISA & Insurance Litigation Blog
On Named and Functional Fiduciaries
I have been a fan of Scott Simon’s Morningstar articles on the various fiduciary relationships among those who run plans and those who advise them. This one here is a…