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CFO
May 15, 2012
David McCann |
Will These Investments Catch On? Why the government's proposals for encouraging "longevity annuities" may not impress many 401(k) plan sponsors.   |
CFO
April 1, 2006
David M. Katz |
Sprucing Up the 401(k) With other retirement vehicles in dire shape, plan sponsors are rethinking their defined-contribution offerings. |
Registered Rep.
November 16, 2010
Alan Lavine |
Growth Opportunities: Immediate Annuities And Qualified Retirement Plans There's a window of opportunity for financial advisors to build business: They can use annuities available in 401k plans to help workers with their post-retirement income. |
CFO
December 1, 2010
David M. Katz |
The Check Will Be in the Mail Can annuities help ease employees' fears about having enough money in retirement? |
On Wall Street
December 1, 2012
Richard T. Mason |
Changing the Retirement Readiness Game Employees are seeking financial guidance and increasingly looking to their employers as a resource for retirement planning. |
Registered Rep.
August 12, 2011
Diana Britton |
Retirement Income Fever The industry has responded to the great wave of retirees that has just begun with an increased focus on creating retirement income streams -- successfully. It's always a tough feat, what with expanding life expectancies and estimating health care needs far out in the future. |
CFO
July 15, 2008
Russ Banham |
Serving Employees, at a Price When employees are automatically enrolled in 401(k) plans the company tab can soar. |
Knowledge@Wharton
August 27, 2003 |
How Much Money Will You Need for Retirement? More Than You Think What you don't know can't hurt you, according to the old saying. When it comes to retirement planning, though, the old saying doesn't apply. |
Financial Advisor
September 2007
Alan Lavine |
Looking For Certainty Sponsors of 401(k) and 403(b) plans want employees to draw a stable source of retirement income from them. But it's a daunting task to manage a portfolio of mutual funds while withdrawing money, based on government-mandated minimum distribution rules. A few plan sponsors already have begun adding income replacement funds to solve this problem. |
Investment Advisor
June 2010
Marlene Y. Satter |
Insurance Update: Easy Monthly Payments (for Retirement) Nationwide's suggestions for retirement income: annuities in 401(k) plans. |
Registered Rep.
November 1, 2002
Pamela J. Black |
How to Be a Retirement Planning Hero Fixing a client's retirement plan (to the extent possible) may be the best opportunity brokers have today to create new business. |
The Motley Fool
September 15, 2010
Dan Caplinger |
This Investment Won't Save Your Retirement Annuities can't work if you don't have the money to buy them. |
CFO
May 1, 2007
Russ Banham |
To Rollover, or Not? Why retirees should think twice before shifting 401(k) assets into an IRA. |
CFO
April 1, 2005
Roy Harris |
Make It Automatic To boost retirement savings, future plans may turn every step from enrollment to rollover into a ''default'' choice for employees. |
BusinessWeek
June 13, 2005
Aaron Pressman |
401(k)s Spring A Leak Baby Boomers are switching out of their retirement accounts, and mutual funds are hurting. |
CFO
April 1, 2010
Alix Stuart |
Sea Change Companies now play a much more active role in guiding employees' 401(k) investment decisions. |
On Wall Street
October 1, 2009
E. Thomas Foster Jr. |
Seek Opportunities to Help Employers With Retirement Plans Financial advisors whose business clients sponsor 401(k) or other defined contribution plans can provide critical assistance in helping educate both plan sponsors as well as participants in making the most of their retirement plans. |
CFO
December 1, 2009
Randy Myers |
A Question of Balance The much-maligned 401(k) plan is being beefed up. So are the penalties for failing to manage it well. |
Financial Advisor
December 2007
Jeff Schlegel |
The Changing Face Of 401(k) Plans The 401(k) plan has become a bedrock of the American retirement account, but its foundation is becoming increasingly fluid with evolving rules, products and attitude shifts that add choices -- and complexities -- for plan participants and their sponsors. |
CFO
April 1, 2009
Lynn Brenner |
401(k)risis The stock-market meltdown has dealt a crushing blow to retirement plans. Brace for repercussions. |
Investment Advisor
March 2008
Melanie Waddell |
Focus! There's plenty to think about when doing retirement planning for clients; read on for the priorities that you should be doing something about, right now. |
CFO
May 1, 2009
Lynn Brenner |
Are Target Funds on Target? The "simple" investment option may be more complicated than you think. |
Investment Advisor
January 27, 2011
Danielle Andrus |
More Employers Offer Help Meeting Retirement Goals Automation, advice are popular ways to help employees with retirement saving. |
Registered Rep.
October 11, 2012
Stan Luxenberg |
Savers, at Last. . . The 401(k) has long been considered a failure at truly preparing anyone for retirement -- especially since the recession. Less noticed is that the plans are, slowly, getting much better. |
BusinessWeek
July 2, 2009
Theo Francis |
Washington: Reworking Retirement Savings Plans Lawmakers are debating how to protect 401(k)s from from market swings and ensure workers don't outlive their savings. |
CFO
April 1, 2007
Roy Harris |
A New Start Under the Pension Protection Act, companies play a key role in keeping employee retirement savings on track. |
Entrepreneur
November 2006
Scott Bernard Nelson |
Dish It Out Pension offerings continue to dissolve, but new laws reward employers whose workers pump up their 401(k)s. |
On Wall Street
December 1, 2009
Geoffrey Stiff |
When Your Client's Retirement Plan Is Washed Away, You Can Rebuild it Investors who are close to retirement are emerging from their storm cellars to assess the damage their retirement portfolios suffered during last year's financial tornados. |
Investment Advisor
March 2007
Melanie Waddell |
Leading the Way This year is shaping up into one in which advisors will have to stay compliant with a plethora of retirement planning rules and regs if they expect to stay firmly rooted in the retirement planning arena -- and doing what's best for their clients. |
Financial Advisor
November 2010
Alan Lavine |
New Opportunities With 401(k)s Participants are making asset allocation mistakes, even though most plans offer a good selection of investment options. |
The Motley Fool
October 20, 2006
Dan Caplinger |
Are You a Bad Investor? Learning about investing and financial planning isn't always easy, but it's part of being a responsible adult member of society. Workers owe it to themselves to take advantage of the numerous options at their disposal to help them make the most of their savings. |
Financial Advisor
November 2010 |
Auto-Enrollment Benefits Young Savers A new study shows young workers with 401(k) auto enrollment are better diversified than employees who aren't offered that feature in their retirement plans. |
The Motley Fool
January 11, 2010
Dan Caplinger |
This Won't Solve the Retirement Crisis Promoting annuities has more cons than pros. |
The Motley Fool
February 8, 2005
David Braze |
10 Ways to Mismanage Your 401(k) Any one of these mistakes has the potential to cost us thousands of dollars in the amount we will eventually accrue for retirement. |
Financial Planning
April 1, 2005
Neil A. O'Hara |
2010: What You'll Be Selling When the baby boomers start to reach retirement age, they will switch from accumulating assets to living off their capital. That change will force boomers to reassess their financial positions and presents a big opportunity to the planning industry. |
CFO
December 1, 2007
Kate O'Sullivan |
The New Mix With so much riding on 401(k)s, more and more companies are reconsidering their plan offerings. |
Financial Planning
September 1, 2006
David Liebrock |
Mining 401(k) Gold Small- and mid-sized companies are looking for help with their retirement plans. Here's how to reach out to this untapped market. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
How Design of Pension Plans Influences Employee Investments With the collapse of Enron, lawmakers, regulators, financial advisors and working people are taking a hard look at 401(k) plans, which employees in many U.S. companies use to save for retirement... |
Real Estate Portfolio
May/Jun 2001
Jack McAllister |
On the Rise If 401(k) plan values are to rise to their potential, they could use a little more yeast -- in the form of REIT stocks... |
Investment Advisor
April 2006
Melanie Waddell |
The Playing Field: Meeting the Need for Income A host of financial services firms are coming out with new products to help advisors protect their retirees' income streams. Here's a rundown of some of the companies' offerings. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
How Well Do 401(k) Plans Work, and Who Benefits Most From Them? Do problems with 401(k)s still appear as bad as they did last winter? Should the system be left alone, merely tweaked, or overhauled -- perhaps converted to a kind of Super-IRA that would solve Enron-type problems by removing the employer from the process? |
Financial Advisor
November 2011
Jim Frederick |
Building A Moat Advisors give longevity insurance another look as clients face longer life spans and financial anxiety. |
Financial Planning
July 1, 2008
Donald Jay Korn |
You Gotta Have a Plan By itself, a retirement plan sponsored by a small business or a professional practice might be modest, with $1 million or less in assets. By pursuing several plans, though, advisors may discover that "real money" is attainable. |
BusinessWeek
April 25, 2005
Howard Gleckman |
A Nest Egg That's A No-Brainer Automatic 401(k)s are taking hold in the U.S. -- and getting employees to salt more away. |
Investment Advisor
March 2010
Melanie Waddell |
Income Initiatives; Social Security President Obama's State of the Union address included a number of retirement savings initiatives that he'd like to see enacted: the automatic IRA, an expanded savers credit, updating 401(k) regulations, as well as using annuities as a way to turn savings into a guaranteed lifetime income. |
The Motley Fool
December 8, 2010
Selena Maranjian |
Don't Fall for This False Retirement Promise By taking matters into your own hands, you can build your own comfy retirement through annuities, dividends, or a combination of both. |
Registered Rep.
November 1, 2004
Chris O'Leary |
The Dawn of the Retirement Age Financial advisors and market analysts agree that as baby boomers begin to retire later this decade and throughout the 2010s, many retirees remain dangerously uninformed about how much annual income they will need and about how to manage their investments. |
BusinessWeek
February 5, 2009
Amy Feldman |
Can an Improved 401(k) Save Your Retirement? Asset managers and insurers are trying to develop a hybrid 401(k), combining guaranteed income and an investment portfolio. |
Financial Advisor
May 2007
Ken Ziesenheim |
Diamonds In The Rough The new Pension Protection Act offers opportunities for financial advisors, if you know where to dig. |
Registered Rep.
March 9, 2012
Mark Miller |
Six Ways Pension Annuities Almost Always Beat a Lump Sum Even if a lump sum is a choice for your client, think twice before advising a client to take it. |
