Tag: IRA Fees

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The brief’s key findings are: Due to 401(k) rollovers, IRAs have become the biggest form of retirement savings. But IRAs tend to have higher fees, partly because commissions ­– such as 12b-1 fees – encourage broker-dealers to sell more expensive mutual funds. 12b-1 fees would have been eliminated under a 2010 Department of Labor reform proposal. This…