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What Retirement Savers Need to Know About the Fiduciary Rule
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[Opinion]
May 10, 2015
"According to the Labor Department: 'As baby boomers retire, they are increasingly moving money from ERISA-covered plans, where their employer has both the incentive and the fiduciary duty to facilitate sound investment choices, to IRAs (which are mentioned no less than 65 times in the Labor Department's proposed rule) where both good and bad investment choices are myriad and advice that is conflicted is commonplace.' And because of that, the Labor Department wants those providing 'investment advice' to IRA account owners to be 'fiduciaries' as well. And because of that, critics say IRA account owners, especially those with small accounts, will either get less advice or pay more for it if the proposed rule goes into effect as proposed."

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