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        <title><![CDATA[Ethan Schwartz - Corporate Director]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Ethan Schwartz has worked as an investment manager and financial services executive for 21 years. He was a special assistant to the deputy secretary of the Treasury in the Clinton administration.
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            <title><![CDATA[401(k) Fees Are Eating Your Retirement Savings]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Reform could put billions into the pockets of American savers.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2020 14:00:03 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Could have had a nicer hot tub without the 401(k) fees.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Retirement Advice Is Looking Shakier Than Ever]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[An insurance industry proposal purports to protect consumers but actually favors commissions and profits.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2020 14:00:21 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>You’re on your own.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[States Aren’t Great at Regulating Insurance]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Just look what sellers of investment products can get away with.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 28 Aug 2019 12:00:11 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Maybe the feds should step in.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Congress Has a Dangerous Idea for Your 401(k)]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Saving for retirement is already difficult. Why make it more so?]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2019-07-29/congress-s-secure-act-could-ruin-your-401-k</link>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jul 2019 11:00:09 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Carefully, please.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Don’t Bet Your Retirement on a Fake Track Record]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Regulators should curb insurers’ use of hypothetical returns to sell investments.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2019-06-17/don-t-bet-your-retirement-on-a-fake-track-record</link>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2019 11:00:36 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>A sure thing?</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[These Ads Could Be Bad for Your Financial Health]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Peddlers of retirement products need to give consumers better information.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2019-06-04/these-ads-could-be-bad-for-your-financial-health</link>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2019 14:00:42 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>A picture taken on May 31, 2019 shows a 2CV Citroen car at the national 2CV meeting in Saint-Amand Montrond, Central France. - The 2CV built by Citroen just after the war was the first popular car. Five million cars were sold between 1949 and 1990. A 2CV car in good condition is worth more than 10,000 euros today. (Photo by GUILLAUME SOUVANT / AFP) (Photo credit should read GUILLAUME SOUVANT/AFP/Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Trump Could Cost Future Retirees Billions]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Abandoning the fiduciary rule was a mistake.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2019 10:00:14 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Where are the investors’ vacations?</media:description>
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