How to Protect Your Retirement Accounts

A new move by President Donald Trump which delays and reconsiders the Department of Labor’s fiduciary rule, scheduled to go into effect in April, may mean higher costs for individual investors and retirement plans, especially 401(k)s offered by small businesses. Fortunately, the threat of the regulation had already started to change the way financial institutions do business. Some firms have moved away from their higher-cost products and toward making their fees easier to explain to clients.