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Robo 401(k) advice with a real human

by Ric Lager | Feb 14, 2017 | 401k Advice, Blog, Educational

A robo-advisor is an online financial advice and portfolio management provider with little or no human interaction. The best example of robo-advice that I can think of is asking Google Home or Amazon Echo which mutual funds to own on your company 401(k) retirement...

Fiduciary blueprint for your Minnesota 401(k)

by Ric Lager | Feb 9, 2017 | 401k Advice, Blog, Educational

I came across a very informative article in Forbes this week by Edward Siedle. Mr. Siedle founded Benchmarkalert.com in 1999. He has a long reputation as a “pension detective” and a “financial watchdog” for individual company retirement plan investors. He has long...

I hate target date mutual funds so much I just had to write one more negative article about them

by Ric Lager | Feb 7, 2017 | 401k Advice, Blog, Educational

Everyone has to have a hobby, right? Lately, my hobby has been hating on company 401(k) retirement plan target date mutual funds. My problem started around Christmas time with this article. It got so bad, that I wrote this anti-target date mutual fund article last...

Company 401(k) target date funds? Really?

by Ric Lager | Jan 31, 2017 | 401k Advice, Blog, Educational

Assets in company 401(k) retirement plan target-date funds have exploded over the past few years. In plans that I routinely monitor for clients, target date mutual funds are by far the most popular mutual fund investment option. The popularity of target date mutual...

Charts confirm how hard it is to pick your 401(k) mutual funds

by Ric Lager | Jan 24, 2017 | 401k Advice, Blog, Educational

If you watch company 401(k) retirement plan default menus for individual investor clients every day like I do, the conclusions in the article linked below come as no surprise. I remind my individual company 401(k) advice clients of this fact all the time. That is, I...

Rank your 2016 company 401(k) investment management decisions

by Ric Lager | Jan 17, 2017 | 401k Advice, Blog, Educational

Very few individual company 401(k) retirement plan participants ever take the time to review their investment management decisions. They have no idea what worked, and what did not work, over the previous calendar year. Your year-end 2016 company 401(k) retirement plan...

Robo 401(k) advice with a real human

Fiduciary blueprint for your Minnesota 401(k)

I hate target date mutual funds so much I just had to write one more negative article about them

Company 401(k) target date funds? Really?

Charts confirm how hard it is to pick your 401(k) mutual funds

Rank your 2016 company 401(k) investment management decisions

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