The Investment Industry Intentionally Avoids the Pension Underfunding Crisis
Share List Since I started in financial journalism over 35 years ago as a reporter in a two-person bureau in Chicago with the trade magazine Pensions & Investments, the issue of underfunded...
View ArticleWells Fargo Fraud Continues As It Sells Insurance Policies to Unsuspecting...
Share List I think this is only the second time I have posted something directly from another site that was not original, but it is an important story on how far Wells Fargo has gone to deceive its...
View ArticleBad News For the Retirement Industry: 401(k)s and IRA’s Fail Compared to...
Share List Two of the cherished gems of the investment and retirement industries are being criticized as failing and this means more bad news for Americans planning for retirement. The first gem to be...
View ArticleTrump Moves to Repeal the Pro-Investor Fiduciary Standard
Share List Despite its claims to be for “all Americans,” The Trump Administration is moving fast to repeal the Beating back progress historic pro-investor fiduciary ruling that let’s 401(k) investors...
View ArticleJPMorgan Chase Faces Fee and Conflicts-of-Interest Charges in Lawsuit
Share List It seems the more it changes, the more it’s the same. Conflicts-of-interest and charging excessive fees seem to be part of the DNA of major banks (such as Deutschbank and its $10 billion...
View ArticleCaveat Emptor: Trump’s Move to Revoke Dodd-Frank Means More Anti-Investor...
Share List The Trump administration’s announcement today that it is moving to revoke the individual investor protections is bad news for unsophisticated, individual investors who are having a hard...
View ArticleJudge Rules Conflict-of-Interest Has No Place in Investing, But Investors...
Share List When a federal court judge ruled on Feb. 8, 2017 that the U.S. Department of Labor’s fiduciary rule must still stand despite furious protests from the financial services lobby, it did not...
View ArticleTrump Declares War Against Investors
Share List It certainly is no surprise that the Trump Administration has declared war on individual investors and will only make it more difficult for millions of Americans to have a financially...
View ArticleWant to Rig the World’s Biggest Market? No Problem.
Share List Want to rig the world’s largest financial market? No problem. At least that is what prosecutors in the U.S. and the UK are saying when it comes to their charges that three of the world’s...
View ArticleWhat the Ontario Pension System Can Teach Americans
Share List One neighbor to the north has come up with a way to over-fund their state pension system, so why can’t it be repeated here? Bucking the industry trend, the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan...
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