Chris Carosa

About the Author

Chris Carosa

Christopher Carosa, CTFA, is Chief Contributing Editor for FiduciaryNews.com, a leading provider of essential news and information, blunt commentary and practical examples for ERISA/401k fiduciaries, individual trustees and professional fiduciaries. With three decades of experience in the investment industry, Mr. Carosa has helped create or found a number of financial products and firms including mutual funds, common trust funds, registered investment advisers as well as a billion-dollar trust company. A well-respected national speaker and prolific author, he's published two investment books, written one fiction novel and watched his play (a musical comedy) performed in front of sell out audiences. Follow Fiduciary News on Twitter and LinkedIn.

• When it comes to retirement investing, never trust anyone under 30

  By Chris Carosa  |  May 23, 2012

  Are younger workers about to repeat history and compromise their own retirement savings - despite the recent recoup in 401(k) losses?

• Siding with the 'good guys' on the fiduciary standard

  By Chris Carosa  |  May 16, 2012

  What happens when advisors are at odds with their industry's top lobbying group? We offer three tips to SIFMA to help them do the right thing.

• 3 reasons to fear 408(b)(2)

  By Chris Carosa  |  May 9, 2012

  It doesn’t matter who you are in the 401(k) world – plan sponsor, vendor or employee – the DOL’s new Fee Disclosure Rule is a minefield of uncertainty.

• How to not act like a pension plan fiduciary

  By Chris Carosa  |  May 2, 2012

  Shareholder activism may be acceptable in the chic cafes of politics, but its verges on the cusp of fiduciary breach for those handling other peoples’ money.

• How to solve the biggest problem facing 401(k) plans

  By Chris Carosa  |  April 25, 2012

  The average plan has 17 options. Research suggests the number should be in single digits. Believe or not, we can serve both masters.

• This might be the best fiduciary standard solution

  By Chris Carosa  |  April 18, 2012

  Ironically, the legacy of the Merrill Rule might be the extinction of the Merrill species.

• Broker ploy headed for Titanic fiduciary iceberg?

  By Chris Carosa  |  April 11, 2012

  All the lobbyist money in the world cannot trump science - or can it? Who will win the war for a Uniform Fiduciary Standard?

• 4/01(k) fools day

  By Chris Carosa  |  April 5, 2012

  Is this merely a testament to America’s declining math skill or are we just inherently illogical?

• Is the DOL about to define fiduciary down?

  By Chris Carosa  |  March 28, 2012

  Fiduciary proponents wince as the DOL appears poised to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

• What's missing from your 401(k) investment policy statement?

  By Chris Carosa  |  March 21, 2012

  If you created your IPS in the 20th century, maybe it’s time to consider bringing it into the new millennium.