"When changing plan offerings, administrators routinely chase returns and do not improve performance. In fact, about the best thing [a recent] study could say for employers' fund-picking ability was that the index-lagging funds they chose performed 'better than comparable, randomly selected funds'.... To make matters worse, the inability of administrators to properly select funds is then compounded by plan participants' tendency to follow investment strategies that add no value, and to chase returns."

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