Excessive fee claims pose a major risk to advisors. From questionable allegations to cookie-cutter ERISA lawsuits, excessive fee claims are growing, impacting more and more retirement plan fiduciaries. These sprawling class-action lawsuits can put both your professional and personal assets [...]
Recently Tom Schrandt, Vice President at Lockton Affinity and Producer of the Lockton Affinity Advisor business, sat down with NAPA Net the Magazine, the official magazine of the National Association of Plan Advisors, to discuss an important topic—the coverage gaps [...]
More and more excessive fee lawsuits are claiming that retirement plan fiduciaries are overpaying for fees or mismanaging investments, but excessive fee reforms could be on the horizon. Excessive fee lawsuits are concerning—not only due the high cost to advisors [...]
Over the last year, advisor insurance claims for excessive fee lawsuits have skyrocketed. If you are a retirement plan fiduciary, you too could be at an increased risk for an allegation that the investment manager or recordkeeper is being paid [...]
Large class-action excessive fee lawsuits were once rare and targeted big firms with billions of assets under management. Now, these lawsuits have taken aim at small-firm fiduciaries managing all types of plans. Litigation is extremely complex and costly with personal [...]
Large class-action lawsuits claiming retirement plan fiduciary negligence resulting in excessive fees have been with us for a long time. But as we recently wrote, this threat has evolved—now any fiduciary of a retirement plan can face significant risk of [...]
Fiduciaries of retirement plans face a number of evolving risks. Most recently, there has been a wave of excessive fee lawsuits against advisors. Large class-action lawsuits were once rare and targeted at big firms with billions of assets under management. [...]
The best advisor–client relationships are built on trust and professionalism. In many ways, that professional trust is built by following the proper procedures for reporting and compliance, such as properly disclosing disciplinary events on Form ADV Part 3. Following the [...]
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