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This might sound like a crazy idea, but getting everyone acclimated to auto-enrollment and auto-escalation in their defined contribution plans might be how we start to fix some retirement problems.

There is a retirement crisis, but it depends on the size of the firm you work for, not the lack of an adequate retirement savings mechanism.

Before we end up with the Obamacare version of a nationalized retirement plan, in comes the ascendant 401(k) MEP.

Before the invasion of the target date funds, most 401(k) plan investors were encouraged to leave their assets in funds that generally contained 100 percent stocks.

Retirement advisers are shifting from using return assumptions towards using required return (aka Goal-Oriented Target) numbers.

In the coming years we will begin to see a civil war of sorts between these two competing investment philosophies.

As an advisor, you have one purpose in life: To take up arms against a sea of psychology and convince retirement savers to do the right thing.

We measure fiduciary success many years into the future--which is why a fiduciary must not confuse effort with results.