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Address: Ensuring Hardworking Americans Retire with Dignity
The White House
February 28, 2015
Hi everybody. In America, we believe that a lifetime of
hard work and responsibility should be rewarded with a shot at a secure,
dignified retirement. It’s one of the
critical components of middle-class life – and this week, I took new steps to
protect it.
Six years after the crisis that
shook a lot of people’s faith in a secure retirement, our economy is steadily
growing. Last year was the best year for
job growth since the 1990s. All told,
over the past five years, the private sector has added nearly 12 million new
jobs. And since I took office, the stock
market has more than doubled, replenishing the 401(k)s of millions of families.
But while we’ve come a long way,
we’ve got more work to do to make sure that our recovery reaches more
Americans, not just those at the top.
That’s what middle-class economics is all about – the idea that this
country does best when everyone gets their fair shot, everybody does their fair
share, and everyone plays by the same set of rules.
That last part – making sure everyone
plays by the same set of rules – is why we passed historic Wall Street Reform
and a Credit Card Bill of Rights. It’s
why we created a new consumer watchdog agency.
And it’s why we’re taking new action to protect hardworking families’
retirement security. If you’re working hard and putting away money, you should
have the peace of mind that the financial advice you’re getting is sound and
that your investments are protected.
But right now, there are no rules
of the road. Many financial advisers put
their clients’ interest first – but some financial advisers get backdoor
payments and hidden fees in exchange for steering people into bad
investments. All told, bad advice that
results from these conflicts of interest costs middle-class and working families
about $17 billion every year.
This week, I called on the
Department of Labor to change that – to update the rules and require that
retirement advisers put the best interests of their clients above their own
financial interests. Middle-class families
cannot afford to lose their hard earned savings after a lifetime of work. They deserve to be treated with fairness and
respect. And that’s what this rule would
do.
While many financial advisers
support these basic safeguards to prevent abuse, I know some special interests
will fight this with everything they’ve got.
But while we welcome different perspectives and ideas on how to move
forward, what I won’t accept is the notion that there’s nothing we can do to
make sure that hard-working, responsible Americans who scrimp and save can
retire with security and dignity.
We’re going to keep pushing for
this rule, because it’s the right thing to do for our workers and for our
country. The strength of our economy
rests on whether hard-working families can not only share in America’s success,
but can also contribute to America’s success.
And that’s what I will never stop fighting for – an economy where
everyone who works hard has the chance to get ahead.
Thanks, and have a great weekend. |
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