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Read about exactly how much risk is in your stock market based 401(k) now

by Ric Lager | Sep 22, 2017 | 401k Advice, Blog, Educational

Almost everyone can remember back to the year 2000. Even some of my oldest clients can do that. MarketWatch this morning published a shocking article (at least to me). The article included a chart of the last 17.5 years of S&P 500 index investment returns. I...

Do you have flood insurance for your 401(k)?

by Ric Lager | Sep 19, 2017 | 401k Advice, Blog, Educational

“We’ve had three 100-year floods in the last 18 months. This one looks like a 1,000-year flood.” – Congressman Pete Olson of Texas (source: NPR) The historic amount of rainfall caused by Hurricane Harvey last month caused flooding in the city of Houston. This...

Can you own ETF’s in your company 401(k)?

by Ric Lager | Sep 12, 2017 | 401k Advice, Blog, Educational

Last month, Reuters published an informative article on the tremendous growth of exchange trade funds. The author, Beth Pinsker, asked the same question that I run into several times a month from individual company 401(k) retirement plan investment advice prospects....

Can you take constructive criticism on your 401(k)?

by Ric Lager | Sep 6, 2017 | 401k Advice, Blog, Educational

Weekly, I go through the following process with multiple individual company 401(k) retirement plan investment advice prospects. I review the default company 401(k) retirement plan menu mutual fund options. I then rank these mutual funds on investment performance and...
A Fiduciary Level of Individual Company 401(k) Retirement Plan Investment Advice is Long Overdue

A Fiduciary Level of Individual Company 401(k) Retirement Plan Investment Advice is Long Overdue

by Ric Lager | Aug 31, 2017 | 401k Advice, Blog, Educational

It’s always easy in my blog posts to cherry pick recent financial media articles that reinforcement the same opinions that I share with the author. I am guilty as charged here. Nevertheless, a recent article by Joe Venti and Andy Green at MarketWatch compel me to...

Nice Gesture from a Busy 401(k) Advice Client

by Ric Lager | Aug 29, 2017 | 401k Advice, Blog, Educational

Last week, one of my long-time individual company 401(k) advice clients invited me to meet. This kind of spur-of-the-moment meeting had never taken place before with this client. She has no time for personal meeting during her business day. Our relationship has always...
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