9/3/2013 – Retirement advisors labor to rebuild trust (BenefitsPro)

Many retirement accounts that took a hit in the Great Recession are back on track, but those dark days left a lingering, hard-to-erase legacy: an erosion of the trust that investors had placed in their financial advisors.

The problem – aggravated by scandals involving rogue trading, rate manipulation and insider trading – crops up every time there’s a financial meltdown. This time, it appears especially pronounced among middle and lower-income workers who tell surveyors they simply do not believe their financial advisors are working with their best interest in mind.

Read the full article at BenefitsPro.