A recent First Circuit Court of Appeals decision puts a special light on the fiduciary standards for selecting, monitoring and changing the investments in your 401k plan. It also supports our ongoing approach to this for our clients. For the full article, click here.
“Moreover, any fiduciary of a plan such as the Plan, in this case, can easily insulate itself by selecting well-established, low-fee and diversified market index funds. And any fiduciary that decides it can find funds that beat the market will be immune to liability unless a district court finds it imprudent in its method of selecting such funds, and finds that a loss occurred as a result. In short, these acts are not matters concerning which ERISA fiduciaries should cry ‘wolf.’”
