Caveat emptor:
“That’s where the big money is,” said Barbara Roper, director of investor protection for the Consumer Federation of America in Washington, D.C. “And right now there’s a lot of incentive to encourage people to roll over even when they’d be better off staying” in a lower-cost 401(k) plan.A postponement of the ruling under Trump would hurt middle-income retirement savers, Roper said. While wealthy investors tend to use financial advisers who already are considered fiduciaries, middle-income clients are likelier to get advice from nonfiduciaries, she said.
Source: What Trump Could Do to Your Clients’ Retirement
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