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How to CRACK the secret costs in an insurance illustration

Sara Grillo

Quick math: If you have $1.828 million in the bank. It’s impossible to figure out from the illustration – it can only be determined based upon this supplemental report that is usually not asked for by the fiduciary financial advisor or the client. And , you have to do the math by hand. There is an admin charge of about $49k.

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Transcript: Ilana Weinstein

The Big Picture

.” It’s really helpful to have had five other meetings with people who sit at analogous funds that had losses that were just as big, and in fact, they may have contributed to those losses more and be able to tell him, first off, your fund, just by my math, has a $250 million management fee. RITHOLTZ: People will figure out.

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E.S.G. Good for Wall Street Bad for America

David Nelson

And why did Congress just vote to block President Biden’s Department of Labor rule, a rule that encourages private retirement fiduciary is to use ESG in the decision-making process? When it comes to retirement, we’re talking about people’s life savings and quality of life in their golden years. Do the Math!

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Transcript: Gretchen Morgenson

The Big Picture

It had been prevented, had been barred from that before because of this fiduciary duty idea and also because of the opacity of these instruments. So corporate pensions that gave a worker a reasonable shot at a prosperous retirement. The Labor Department under Donald Trump did open the door for private equity to get into 401(k)s.

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