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401(k) Fiduciary Snapshots...
The Perfect Storm is Brewing for 401(k) Fiduciaries 
Richard D. Glass
January 2012
Implementing Default Contribution Rates, QDIAs, and Investment Advice in 401(k) Plans: Where Congress’s Goals and Fiduciary Conduct Conflict

Richard D. Glass
December 2011
Rethinking 401(k) Litigation Risk Management 
Richard D. Glass
November 2011
Do Managed Accounts and Target-Date Funds Provide Genuine Value or Just a Feel-Good Solution? Questions 401(k) Fiduciaries and Their ERISA Counsel Should Ask Themselves 
Richard D. Glass
November 2011
Essential, But Often Ignored, Principles Of 401(k) Fiduciary Risk Management 
Richard D. Glass
June 2010
401(k) Fiduciary Duties Will Be Turned Upside-Down When A Knowledgeable Class Action Lawyer Tells A Good Story 
Richard D. Glass
May 2010
Competitive Fees: Genuine Value or Mirage of Worth 
Richard D. Glass
May 2010
Journal Articles and White Papers...
Monitoring Retirement Readiness: The Need, Who Should Do It, and How to Avoid Pitfalls 
Richard D. Glass
September 2011
Target-Date Funds and Managed Accounts: Are They the Modern Versions of Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tale, “The Emperor’s New Clothes”? 
Richard D. Glass
May 2011
New Challenges for 401(k) Fiduciaries: Are Judges Telling the Plaintiffs’ Bar How to Sue 401(k) Fiduciaries and Sponsors? 
Richard D. Glass
September 2010
Target-Date Funds and Managed Accounts: All that Glitters is not Gold 
Richard D. Glass
August 2010
Fiduciary Duties Are A Matter of Facts and Circumstances, and Facts and Circumstances Have Changed Quite A Bit Since 1981 
Richard D. Glass
May 2010
Target Date Funds: A Wonder Drug for Participants or a Pandora’s Box for All Concerned 
Richard D. Glass
March 2010
401(k) Fiduciary Risk Management: Making Decisions Based upon Knowledge Rather Than Fact-Resistant Beliefs and Wishful Thinking

Richard D. Glass
February 2010
Conventional wisdom, fiduciary duty and 401(k)s 
Richard D. Glass
Pensions & Investments
November 30, 2009
401(k) Fiduciary Responsibility: Conventional Wisdom and the Law of Unexpected Consequences

Richard D. Glass
October 2009
Summarizing the Risks That Threaten the Profitability (and Possibly Even the Survival) of 401(k) Providers

Richard D. Glass
March 2009
401(k) Fiduciary Responsibilities: Conventional Wisdom Is No Longer Conventional...Or Wisdom 
Richard D. Glass
February 2009
Justifying 401(k) Fees: A Challenge for Fiduciaries 
Richard D. Glass
September 2008
“Duty of Loyalty”: An Ambiguous Phrase That is Likely to Lead to a Minefield of Legal Uncertainty 
Richard D. Glass
August 2008
Is It Time To Re-examine What It Means To Fulfill Your 401(k) Fiduciary Responsibility? 
Richard D. Glass
March 10, 2008
Lawsuits Expose Fiduciary Tightrope 
Richard D. Glass
Pensions & Investments
August 20, 2007
Value and Prudent Process (Part II): 
The Diffusion of Responsibility and Its Effect on Value
Richard D. Glass
Summer 2007
Value and Prudent Process (Part I): 
Redefining Both Terms in Light of the Recent Spate of Class Action Lawsuits over 401(k) Fees
Richard D. Glass
Benefits & Compensation Digest, June 2007
International Foundation of Employee Benefits
A New Paradigm for Fiduciaries: 
A Value Driven, Results Oriented Process for Running 401(k) Plans
Richard D. Glass
Fall 2006
Have
Fiduciaries Gone Astray: 
Creating a Prudent
Process in Today's Turbulent World
Richard D. Glass
Summer 2006
This working paper was modified for publication in
Benefits & Compensation Digest, October 2006
International Foundation of Employee Benefits
Stop, Look, and Listen:

Your Profitable Participants Remain Hidden in Plain View
Richard D. Glass
LIMRA's MarketFacts Quarterly, Spring 2005
LIMRA International
Making 401(k) Plans a Win-Win Proposition:

Getting Participants to Help Themselves and Fiduciaries to Fulfill Their Responsibilities
Richard D. Glass
Benefits and Compensation Digest,
February 2005
International Foundation of Employee Benefits
Investment
Education for the 21st Century  Dispelling the Myths and Undoing the Tactical Errors of the Nineties
Richard D. Glass and Stan Marshall
Employee Benefits
Journal, June 2003
International Foundation of Employee Benefits
Everyone
Needs a Wakeup Call 
Richard D. Glass
Vested Interest, Spring 2003
LIMRA International
Using
Investment Education to Enhance Profitability:

Where Have Plan
Providers Gone Astray?
Richard D. Glass
Employee Benefits Journal, December 2001, Volume 26, Number 4
Communicate,
Don't Litigate

Richard D. Glass
LIMRA's MarketFacts Quarterly, Fall 2001
Investment
Education or Advice? 
That's the Wrong Question to Ask!
Richard D. Glass
Employee Benefits Journal, June 2000, Volume 25, Number 2 Fiduciary and Quality Issues in

Investment Education: Tip Sheet for Plan Sponsors
Richard D. Glass
Personal Finances and Worker Productivity, Fall 1999, volume 3, Number 2
Education
Techniques, Media, and Technologies 
Tip Sheet for
Plan Sponsors
Richard D. Glass
Personal Finances and Worker Productivity, Fall 1999, Volume 3, Number 2
Not On the Internet,
Please 
Richard D. Glass
Pensions & Investments, June 14, 1999
Portfolio Optimizers: The
Road to 
Financial Security or the Primrose Path?
Richard D. Glass and Stan Marshall
Personal Finances and Worker Productivity, June 1999, Volume 3, Number 1
Investment Education: Who's
Fooling Whom? 
Richard D. Glass
Employee Benefits Journal, March 1999, Volume 24, Number 1
Investment Education: A Review
of 
the State of the Union
Richard D. Glass
Employee Benefits Journal, March 1998, Volume 23, Number 1
Investment Education: A Very

Sharp Double-Edged Sword
Richard D. Glass
LIMRA's MarketFacts, Sep/Oct 1997
What Will Participants Do When

When the Bull Market Goes Bye-Bye?
Richard D. Glass
LIMRAs MarketFacts, May/June 1997
Educating Participants on
Investment: 
Is the Myopic Legal tail Wagging the Dog?
Richard D. Glass and Robert A. Johnson
Plan Sponsor, February 1997
Chapter 12: A Brief Summary of the

Major Investment Issues facing 401(k) Plan Trustees
Richard D. Glass and Stan Marshall
401(k) Plans: A Comprehensive Planning and Compliance Guide
John Wiley and Sons, 1996
Meeting
Participants' Investment Needs: 
A Guide to Selecting Investment Options
for DC Plans
Richard D. Glass
Profit Sharing, Sept.-Oct. 96
A Survey of the
Investment Issues 
Confronting Defined Contribution Plan
Trustees
Richard D. Glass
Employee Benefits Journal, November 1995, Volume 32, Number 11
Issues in
Participant Education 
Richard D. Glass and Stan Marshall
Employee Benefits Journal, Sept. 1994
Critiquing "Quant"
Models 
Richard D. Glass
Pensions & Investment Age, August 8, 1988 |