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| Biased! How behavioral finance impacts investors and investments |
| Forging a path of least resistance to plan participant success remains at the center of a plan sponsor’s fiduciary responsibility. Plan advisors play a major role in designing plan features and investments to help meet that responsibility. While automated plan features are a start, they are not enough—it takes creative participant education and motivation as well.
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| Advisers Giving Back: A Foundation That Spans the World |
| Since its founding in 2011, the SageView Foundation has raised more than $1.5 million to help meet the health care and education needs of women and children in crisis and to provide community development micro-loans.
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| Through the ‘Window’ |
| For a small contingent of employees determined to chart their own investment course, TDFs hold less appeal. These independent-minded investors prefer to allocate their capital through a brokerage window offered in their plan alongside the conventional fund menu.
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| Market Mirror |
| Wednesday, the Dow gained 162.94 points (0.61%) to finish at 26,970.71, the NASDAQ closed 83.76 points (1.05%) higher at 8,077.38, and the S&P 500 increased 18.27 points (0.62%) to 2,984.87. The Russell 2000 was up 17.07 points (1.11%) at 1,550.65, and the Wilshire 5000 climbed 204.19 points (0.67%) to 30,506.51.
The price of the 10-year Treasury note decreased 7/32, bringing its yield up to 1.730%. The price of the 30-year Treasury bond fell 1 29/32, increasing its yield to 2.181%.
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