Conflicting economic priorities create a problem legislation cannot solve merely by adjusting a number in the tax code. Increasing contribution capacity will not revive a benefit structure that no longer fits the decisions employers and employees actually make.

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The same challenge appears in required participant disclosures. Compliance may require sending documents, but sending documents does not guarantee that participants receive useful information.

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In my decades of experience, I have never encountered a pension fiduciary or board that fully understands the risks, costs, underperformance and performance vagaries related to alternatives and private investments.

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The retirement system itself has undergone a revolution. The Congress that oversees retirement policy today would have been unrecognizable to the men who signed the Declaration of Independence. ERISA, enacted in 1974, created a comprehensive fiduciary framework that would have been unimaginable to Franklin, Washington, Jefferson, or Hamilton.

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The reality is that many retirement planning decisions already require participants to evaluate concepts they may not fully understand. That reality raises an important question. Should a plan exclude a potentially beneficial option simply because some participants may find it difficult to understand?

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