Most employers suffer a little hysteria every time they read another headline about another large company shifting its workers into the private exchanges.
A growing number of states are mounting legislative attacks meant to protect the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act by hurting the self-insurance business.
Todays Department of Labor is the most aggressive in years and one of its biggest initiatives imposing the fiduciary standard on broker-dealers will flood the market with hundreds, if not thousands, of new RIAs.
Defined contribution plans have been slow to move into alternative investments but many of the nations largest pension funds are investing billions of dollars in alts and so should you.
More than 30 lawsuits have been filed against 401(k) plan sponsors in the past few years, leaving little doubt that the retirement field remains strewn with legal landmines.