The research underscores the value of plan monitoring, and perhapseven the value third-party fiduciary advisors can bring to plans.(Photo: Shutterstock)
Plan sponsors have a clear legal obligation tomonitor the quality of investments offered to retirement investorsin 401(k) plans.
While that part of fiduciaries' obligations is indisputable, asmall body of academic research on what happens when an investmentoption is removed in favor of another has shown that the new fundsfail to outperform, and sometimes underperform, the removedfunds.
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