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Fighting Powerful Interests

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Daniel Alexander on August 2, 2018

An excellent account of the problems that face the 403(b) education markets and the headwinds experienced by those attempting to make positive change. Fighting Powerful Interests is a powerful and inspiring true story of leadership, tenacity and courage.

Truly committed people do make a difference – Barbara A. Healy April 21, 2015

“Steve tells a very engaging true story about taking on bureaucrats with combined tools of integrity and tenacity. He is a true advocate for all investors but especially the K-12 education employee. This is a great narrative on actual events that lead to “retirement plan” reform at Los Angeles Unified School District. I am honored to know Steve and be part of this story. I am honored to work with all the Retirement Investment Advisory Committee and LAUSD and applaud their commitment and hard work.”

A shocking account of a bad LAUSD 403(b) plan that was open-access by California state … – Yogibearbull November 29, 2015.

A shocking account of a bad LAUSD 403b plan [Los Angeles Unified School District] that was open-access by California state law. Open-access meant that any vendor could be listed resulting in a huge number of plan vendors and options. Not all 403(b)s are like that. A solution was found by switching to LAUSD 457(b). The CA state law should be changed as open-access conflicts with fiduciary guidelines from the IRS. In my retirement plan in Illinois, both 403(b) and 457(b) with selected options were available

The vastly superior returns realized by using low-cost index funds greatly …

on February 6, 2017

This book provides a detailed and informative account of the steps and information required to establish fair retirement choices for workers currently enrolled in costly 403b and 457 plans provided by school districts especially throughout the country. This work clearly explains the harm done to long-term investors by various, often hidden, high fees routinely charged by so-called active management companies. The vastly superior returns realized by using low-cost index funds greatly impact the security of those hoping to retire someday. This author provides a detailed account of his challenging pursuit to get the State of California retirement system to provide low cost, diversified index funds for the benefit of retirees.

This work can serve as a manual for those who wish to change the active management, often including the purchasing of an annuity, offerings of most school districts. In any case, this is a well-written, most readable account of the value of low cost diversified index funds and all the steps needed to bring about change in systems that are not working in the best interests of stakeholders.

 

Steve Schullo tell it like is.

on December 11, 2017

Boy, does Steve Schullo tell it like is? As former President of an RIA firm who has a J.D. degree; I’ve done a fair amount of plaintiff’s recovery work as an expert witness until my recent retirement. Fighting Powerful Interests lays bare the inner workings of the insurance industry, It’s the most truthful account I have seen in my 27 years in the financial services industry. Teachers everywhere should know of and appreciate this account of an exhaustive two person crusade spanning a number of years to free teachers and non-profits from predatory practices not permitted to occur in other professions.

Must Read for all Public Servants

on February 13, 2017

Fascinating book. Every public servant with a 403b plan should read this. For the small price of this book, you can literally save yourself thousands of dollars of money lost to annuity fees. Found the book through the Boglehead forum and I hope it catches some momentum. If you read the recent NY Times articles on the 403b plans then this should be on your reading list.

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Steve’s BIO:

Stephen A. Schullo, Ph.D. (UCLA ’96) taught in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) for 24 years and UCLA Extension teaching educational technology to student teachers. Steve wrote investment articles for the United Teacher-Los Angeles (UTLA) union newspaper for 13 years. Thrice featured retirement plan advocate in the Los Angeles Times and U.S. News and World Report. He co-founded an investor self-help group 403bAware for teacher colleagues and wrote 7,500 posts in three investment forums since 1997. Frequently quoted by the media, testified at California State legislative hearings and honored with the “Unsung Hero” award by UTLA for his retirement planning advocacy.

For the last 14 years, he serves as a volunteer on LAUSD’s Investment Advisory Committee as a “Member-at-Large” and former co-chair. The committee contains collective bargaining reps from the unions and monitors the district’s tax-deferred retirement plans, 457b/403b, of 55,000 former and current LAUSD employees, worth $2.5 billion in total assets.

He started this blog in 2012 to help all PreK-12 public school educators nationwide, especially his Los Angeles Unified School District colleagues. He belongs to a small national group of 403(b) advocates (mostly teachers) who want to bring closer attention to the 403(b). During the last 20 years, over 30 newspaper articles have been published and each one says the same thing, TSAs (Tax Sheltered Annuities) are terrible plans and the salesperson gets the benefit from lucrative commissions and high costs. By evidence that little has changed, it appears that nobody in the educational establishment reads these newspaper reports.

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