Year: 2015

W. Scott Simon analyzes a series of agreements between a large insurance company and a K-12 school district.

A leaked White House memo may have offended some in the financial-services industry, but resistance to a fiduciary standard should be causing more outrage, writes Scott Simon.

Will the DOL jerk the football away from those advocating for the fiduciary standard?

If investment experts cannot identify all the actual costs and beneficial relationships in a 403(b) contract, how can decision-makers at school districts ever do so?

Steve Schullo is working to shed light on the awful shortcomings of K-12 403(b) plans.

In so-called ‘open vendor’ states, high-cost 403(b) plans may be side-stepped by turning to 457(b)s, explains plan-participant advocate Steve Schullo.

Advocate Steve Schullo says reform is moving in the right direction, but there is more work to do.

Disclosures of conflicts made by many financial services providers tell you just about nothing–or even less!

Some end-of-summer observations on suboptimal fiduciary set-ups, the ‘incidental’ issue in the fiduciary wars, and reflections on Tibble v Edison.

We have the SEC to thank for investors not being able to tell a non-fiduciary broker from a fiduciary advisor, argues Scott Simon.

‘Caveat emptor’ is not optimal for plan beneficiaries and sponsors, writes Scott Simon.