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‘Customers First’ Becomes the Law in Retirement Investing

Under new regulations for financial advisers issued Wednesday, said Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez, putting customers first “is no longer a marketing slogan. It’s the law.”

The rules governing how financial professionals handle the trillions of dollars they invest on behalf of Americans saving for retirement are about to get a lot tougher.

The government move is expected to encourage a shift of retirement funds into lower-cost investments — potentially saving billions of dollars for many ordinary investors — while setting off one of the biggest upheavals in the financial services industry in decades.

The Labor Department, after years of battling Wall Street and the insurance industry, issued new regulations on Wednesday that will require financial advisers and brokers handling individual retirement and 401(k) accounts to act in the best interests of their clients.

“The marketing material that I see from many firms is, ‘We put our customers first,’” Thomas E. Perez, the secretary of labor, said in an interview. “This is no longer a marketing slogan. It’s the law.”

The new regulations, which may be challenged in court, were formally proposed a year ago and were modified after hearings and industry criticism. They are not expected to take effect until next spring at the earliest.

Many consumers assume the individuals and firms investing their money are operating under the same sort of ethical and legal standards as a family doctor — someone who is obliged to provide the very best advice.

But brokers are generally required only to recommend “suitable” investments, which means, for example, that they can push a more expensive mutual fund that pays a higher commission when an otherwise identical, cheaper fund would have been an equal or better alternative.

The Obama administration, relying on extensive academic research, estimated that conflicts of interest embedded in the way many investment professionals do business cost Americans about $17 billion, leading to returns that are about 1 percentage point lower each year.

“It has the potential to really change the way advice is delivered to retail investors,” said Barbara Roper, director of investor protection at the Consumer Federation of America. “It is a really big deal. Revolutionary, even.”

The so-called conflict-of-interest rule covers only tax-advantaged retirement accounts and does not apply to most other investments. But it could lead to more sweeping changes across the financial services industry, making it harder for some smaller firms to do business and perhaps encouraging a further consolidation into larger companies better able to handle the detailed rules of compliance.

It is also expected to promote a shift away from commissions for individual transactions toward relying more on flat annual fees for managing accounts, a move that would not benefit all investors equally.

Critics of the rule in its earlier proposed form, such as the American Council of Life Insurers, argued that the changes would cost much more than the government estimated because they were based on an “inadequate and flawed” analysis.

“We hope that once published it reflects the concerns of many of the more than 300 members of Congress from both sides of the aisle, the life insurance industry and numerous other stakeholders,” said Dirk Kempthorne, the council’s chief executive.

For the last year, the industry has lobbied Congress to delay or kill the rule, so far without success. Before going ahead with the final rule, the Labor Department held four days of public hearings at which nearly 80 parties testified; it also received more than 3,000 comments on the proposal from consumer advocates, industry stakeholders and others.

“We heard the concerns, we listened, we acted,” Secretary Perez said. “And I think we improved the rule as a result.’’

Generally speaking, the new rules — six years in the making — would require a broader swath of professionals to act as “fiduciaries,” the legal term for putting customers’ interests first. They cannot accept compensation or payments that would create a conflict unless they qualify for an exemption that ensures the customer is protected.

If brokers want to receive certain types of compensation that can pose a conflict, they will be required to offer an enforceable contract that promises to put the customer’s interests first.

The firms must also disclose any conflicts and direct consumers to a website that describes how they make money. Firms can charge only “reasonable compensation,” and they cannot offer advisers financial incentives to act in a way that would hurt investors.

In using the contract, brokers will still be permitted to charge commissions and engage in a practice known as revenue sharing, which allows a mutual fund company, for example, to share a slice of its revenue with the brokerage firm selling the fund. Companies that pay more may secure a spot on the firm’s list of recommended funds.

The rule also aims to protect investors when they roll over money from a 401(k) retirement plan to an I.R.A. Right now, because the recommendation provided is considered “one-time” advice, brokers do not necessarily have to act in the investor’s best interest.

There are piles of money at stake: Individual retirement accounts held $7.3 trillion at the end of 2015, according to the Investment Company Institute, while 401(k)-type plans had $6.7 trillion — money that may eventually be rolled over into I.R.A.s.

Secretary Perez said that government rule makers had made several changes to their last proposal in an effort to respond to the criticism and avoid creating a bias toward certain investment products. He said advisers would not be obliged to sell lowest-cost products if a more expensive product like a variable annuity made sense for a particular individual’s situation.

The industry was also concerned that simply providing educational information could trigger the rule; regulators said that education would not be considered advice until a broker made a specific recommendation.

Wall Street was worried that brokers would need to provide a contract even before they began talking with a potential client. Regulators said the contract could be signed at the same time as other account-opening documents, though any advice given before the signing must still be in the customer’s best interest.

The new rules also simplify disclosures, another industry complaint. For example, firms will no longer be required to disclose performance projections for one, five- and 10-year periods.

There are also allowances for small 401(k) plans. Under the final rules, advisers who provide advice to small businesses that sponsor 401(k) plans, or plans with less than $50 million, as well as advice to participants, can qualify for an exemption from the strictest rules.

Consumer advocates and lawyers say that a robust fiduciary rule will help thwart more unscrupulous brokers, like the one encountered by Russell Kazda, a retired mechanic, and his wife, Christine, a fourth-grade teacher in Illinois.

Their advisers took $172,000 of the Kazdas’ I.R.A. savings and put it in illiquid real estate investment trusts and later invested money in an options strategy. They ended up losing about $125,000.

“I could have had my fourth graders do it and they would’ve done a better job,” Mrs. Kazda said.

Andrew Stoltmann, a securities lawyer in Chicago who represented the Kazdas, applauded the changes.

“By imposing a fiduciary duty standard, this will cause the brokerage firms to self-police,” he said, protecting most people from often unsuitable investments like “nontraded REITs, variable annuities in I.R.A.s and active trading of stocks and options.”

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So here I am in happy retirement bliss.
I was doing a lot of traveling, with my bud, and good friend but then death took my bud and crap, no one to travel with.

So now I look at volunteer programs, and figure I shall go that way. Doing business support in Jamaica, Katrina rebuild in New Orleans, English teaching in Naples.
Any other retired folk out there that are traveling or volunteer Traveling? Just wondering,
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Worked all my life, got an education, saved and saved and did without. Now I am retired I have no debt, money in the bank, buy what I wish and go where I want (after virus lol). Know that retirement is coming so prepare. You will be happy you did.
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Sometimes life can wipe away all the planning in the world. I had a great career going, savings, 401, new car, condo would've been paid off, no debt and a plan for retirement. I would've been set but my life path took another turn. My mom had a stroke in 2019 and I moved back to Louisiana to take care of her because my mom had been my rock all my life. I have never regretted that decision and would do it all over again. When she passed last year I was devastated but had to move on.

These days I feel like I'm starting all over at 18 years old. My car was totaled, savings and 401 are gone, sold the condo and there are no jobs here. But for whatever reason this is my path and my mom taught me to survive. I'll make it and I'll embrace this new chapter but it hasn't been easy.
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Jar, hey dude, life has handed you a lot and here you are. I love your attitude and with your way of thinking things will pick up for you. I wish you all the best and believe me you are young and I am a dinosaur but I went through a lot in my early years and it takes time and tinacity to get back on your feet. Please don't look back at what happened. Look forward least you fall from not watching where you are going. You can DO IT. Good luck to you.
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Well I'm not that young. I think you misunderstood when I said I felt like I'm starting over at 18 but I'm starting over in what should be my retirement years.
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Well I'm not that young. I think you misunderstood when I said I felt like I'm starting over at 18 but I'm starting over in what should be my retirement years.
Sorry to hear that you are having so many problems in your retirement years. Before I retired I had an angelic vision (and guess still do) of how my life will be, but I came to the realization its harder and rougher than work ever was.

Here's a crap-assed retirement story, at age 62 Social Security is putting me back through the exams that I took to be declared disabled some 10 years ago. Will be past when I'm officially able to retire by the time they'd be able make a determination.
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Jar you did what was right and things will work out for you. I am sorry to hear you are back at square one but you've got this dude.
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Was planning for a long time and figuring out what I wanted to do. Got a reliable truck and car and bike. Starting to do overtime to get a little in the bank. Doing good then got hit by cancer with about 2 years to go. Got through that and went back to work for almost 2 years. Time to make the jump out. I left without looking back. Now been retired little over a year and never felt better knowing I will never have to go back there to those horriable people again. Since the first day I have been getting treatments and CT's and MRI's. That's going good. Still able to do my outside stuff. The thing I hate the most is I gotta get rid of my bike. Can't ride anymore. The surgery messed me up. Friend of mine is going to buy it. I like that idea cause I still have access to it. Maybe zip down the road every now and then with it.

I have a lot to do in the house. When I get something done that makes me feel good. Maybe I haven't lost that much that I can still get my stuff built and fixed. I make my day what I want it to be and not on anyone elses schedule.

Told my Dr. a few days before he retired not to wear his watch anymore. He said he wears a different one in the barn. I said not to wear that one either. Then said to him there is only 2 times a day you need to know what time it is and that is supper time and bedtime and you don't need a watch for that. He smiled.

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I’ve spent the past 40 years of my life in the beauty industry and most all of my career in this industry left me with less to live on rather than more — like in other workplace venues that offer substantial and, dare I say life saving, ways of building a nest egg for retirement needs.

Medicare is the biggest joke that is not funny at all.

First off, people are forced into Medicare at age 65 (which is in a few short weeks, for me). To complicate my “retirement” process is that I’m not allowed to take my SS retirement earnings until I’m 66.5 yrs of age (right now). What you find out at 65 is that Medicare charges the avg person $529.00 every three months as the premium for part B (the arm of your policy that covers your doctor visits). That’s $2500/year. I don’t have that slush money fund at all. Never have. Part A is hospital coverage which the avg person is not charged for. Part C & Part D is not free either because that’s where extraneous other medical aspects of your medical coverage covers expensses for medications, etc., which that is not free either.

I have no idea how I’m going to survive this latest financial issue I’m trying to hurdle on my own but for those like me who have spent years of our work lives in our chosen professions to be let down by the enshrouded mucky-muck unclear borderline in your face lies about what happens to you when you reach age 65 or beyond is the biggest sham for those of us in the aging sector.

I’m not happy. I will figure this out, eventually, by the time I’m 66.5 yrs of age when Medicare can Rob my small social security check four times a year for the price it takes not to die.

Until medical care is socialized into universal terms that includes FREE care for all, we will pay the price it takes to live and not die at an early age.

If your at a place in your life to save back for the financial assault waiting for you at age 65, please do so now before it’s too late.
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