401(k) Investment Options: What is the Right Number?23 Jun
by R. Dean Piccirillo, CFP®, CRPS®, AIFA®
Principal/Senior Financial Advisor
HBK Sorce Financial LLC
Over the last few weeks, I have had the opportunity to review two different 401(k) retirement plans; each one having over seventy available investment options. Participants had to develop their own personal allocation by choosing from dozens of different investment options, many of which were in the same investment category or asset class. It seemed to me that this large number of choices for each participant had the potential to become an overwhelming task that could actually create a situation where a participant was likely to become less diversified, rather than more. (Read full article…)