As the U.S. retirement plan industry prepares for new cost disclosures in 2012, here's a simple fact to remember: The surest and quickest way to reduce participants' all-in cost of retirement plan ownership is to add index funds to the menu.
You can help plan sponsors hit just about any cost-target by adjusting the mix of index funds, and then educating participants on their cost advantages.
To help you advocate for index funds, a valuable piece of ammunition is an updated version of the study False Discoveries in Mutual Fund Performance: Measuring Luck in Estimated Alphas by Laurent Barras, O. Scaillet, and Russ Wermers.
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