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Author of 401(k) Fee Book to be Interviewed Tuesday, May 7 at 12:30 pm EST on...
The author of “How 401(k) Fees Destroy Wealth and How Investors Can Protect Themselves” will be interviewed by Larry Rifkin on WATR Radio at 12:30 pm, EST, Tuesday, May 7. Larry Rifkin, WATR Radio...
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Why The PBS Frontline Segment, “The Retirement Gamble,” Is Important
An important documentary for anyone planning for retirement. The PBS documentary, “The Retirement Gamble,” which aired April 23, 2012 on PBS, has shaken up the 401(k) and mutual fund industries. Since...
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An Insider’s Account of SEC Inaction
The SEC derails another investigation How an SEC Employee, Kathleen Furey, Confronted Intentional Inaction at the SEC As noted on this site for a few years, the SEC is working against investor...
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Financial Services Industry Continues Its Anti-Investor Campaigns
Very few industries are as blatantly anti-customer as the financial services industry. As the following stories show, key elements of the financial industry are actively promoting legislative,...
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How the NYSE Made a Mockery of the Fiduciary Standard
The centerpiece of American capitalism vs. the fiduciary standard “The system is presented as having such a mystique that apparent evil becomes a kind of good.” ––The Organization Man, William Wythe,...
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Shocking News: JP Morgan Tells Its Brokers to Only Push Proprietary Funds
JP Morgan: shocked by its emphasis on selling proprietary funds The famous scene in “Casablanca,” in which police commissioner Captain Renault (Claude Rains) tells ex-patriate Rick Blaine (Humphrey...
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Beware the LIBOR Big Rigging Scandal
Europe slowly reacts to the ever-larger LIBOR bid-rigging scandal Anyone who has ever spent time on an exchange’s trading floor goes through a progression of observations. First, is the awe at the...
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CEOs Get Their Pensions, But Not Their Employees
CEOs give the thumbs up for their own pensions. News that the CEO and chairman of the drug distribution corporation McKesson Corporation has received the largest pension in U.S. history highlights the...
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So Much For Free Markets: Price Fixing Probes Expanding
Europe reacts to the LIBOR bid-rigging scandal Just as we continue to hear about the benefits of free markets for free men, government investigators and economists on both sides of the Atlantic are...
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Who Does the Cost-Benefit Analysis for Individual Investors?
Lobbying vs. the Fiduciary Standard A recent article noted that two powerful financial services lobbying groups are warning that if the SEC pushes for adopting a universal fiduciary standard will be...
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Detroit Bankruptcy Highlights Need For Greater Pensioner Representation
Michigan Governor Rick Snyder, a Republican, advocates for Detroit’s 20,000 public pensioners The historic decision by Detroit to declare bankruptcy under the rarely used Chapter 9 clause has not only...
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Plan Sponsors Affronted By Too Much Disclosure?
Yale University Professor Ian Ayers stirs the 401(k) community Use your sensitive all banks typically a regular viagra 100mg online viagra 100mg online bills at one from us.Information about how simple...
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Free Market Zealots vs. Reality
In their focused efforts to revoke regulations, conservative zealots in the media and Congress have expanded their argument to elevate free markets into near-divine status. But in the process, free...
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What Happens When Banking Scandals Become Routine
Anyone who has ever spent time on an exchange’s trading floor goes through a progression of observations. First, any observer is awed at the commotion. There are the coats of different colors, the...
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Is the Financial Services Industry Inherently Unethical?
Two news items this week indicate that the financial services industry may be inherently unethical, yet the SEC has chosen to do little about it. SEC: No friend of investors That’s the conclusion...
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Lewis Argument is Half Right: Financial Markets Are Rigged, But More From the...
The recent heated discussion about whether the equity markets are rigged should be a major concern to all investors, especially those in retirement, since it fundamentally affects their quality of life...
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Barclays Finally Cited for Being Rogue
Today marked a black day for Barclays Plc. as it was cited twice by British financial regulators for manipulating the price of gold on June 28, 2012 and a day after the bank was fined a record £290...
View ArticleExamining Marco Rubio’s Social Security Reform Proposal
Sen. Marco Rubio, the Florida Republican considering a 2016 presidential run, made headlines this spring by proposing a five-point, Social Security-focused reform plan. The last time Congress made...
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Are Country Club Homes a Bad Investment?
Country club homes may not be the great investment they seem to be Six years after one of the worst US recessions began and its devastating impact on the housing market, one of the least scrutinized...
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What Ferguson and Retirement Planning Have in Common
At first glance, there is no connection between the shooting of an unarmed black man in Ferguson, Missouri, and planning for retirement. Ferguson, Missouri. Blame the victims? But dig a little deeper...
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