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K. Jared Wright is a Summer Reporting Associate with Employee Benefit News. Send pitches to Jared.Wright@arizent.com.

Group of Seven leaders are expected to endorse a plan to plug holes in the world’s leaky tax system when they meet this weekend.

Why does Vanguard expect so little from the market? The culprit, not surprisingly, is high valuations, Nir Kaissar writes.

With the burden on participants to figure it all out, it's no surprise that more often than not, they just give up, Alexis Leondis writes.

Dustin Hostetler is a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt and the co-founder and visionary of Transformity Solutions LLC. He is a nationally recognized speaker and pioneer in applying the Lean and Six Sigma concepts to public accounting firms. He has a BSBA in Finance from The Ohio State University and earned both his Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and Master Black Belt certifications from Kent State University.

James Duffy V is a summer reporting associate for American Banker based in Los Angeles.

According to the latest Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)’s “How America Banks” report, there is an estimated 7.1 million unbanked households in 2019. Given the record levels of unemployment, the pandemic has brought on the FDIC expects this number to rise. Join Joe Adler, American Banker’s Washington Bureau Chief and Leonard Chanin, Deputy to the Chairman of the FDIC as they discuss the FDIC’s stance on financial inclusion and how banks can get millions of unbanked Americans into the traditional banking system.

“Financial wellness is front and center [for employers], so the partnership between Betterment and Lumity made perfect sense,” says Amit Ahluwalia, Lumity’s national employee benefits practice leader.

Beverley Schottenstein steps back into legal combat against her grandsons — two brothers — after a deal to hash out an agreement over their mishandling of her $80 million fell apart.

The PE-backed hybrid RIA is acquiring a practice with nine financial advisors managing $1.46 billion in client assets.