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The Motley Fool December 22, 2006 Dan Caplinger |
Do Pensions Beat 401(k)s? A recent study shows that investors aren't doing as well on their own and underscores the need for employees to understand and take full advantage of their retirement plan options. |
BusinessWeek April 9, 2009 Roben Farzad |
Investment Advice from Jack Bogle The father of indexing cautions against trusting money management firms, market timing, or underestimating the potential for stock gains. |
Real Estate Portfolio Sep/Oct 2002 Jack McAllister |
After the Fall Companies are not waiting for Congress to act; instead leading firms are fixing their 401(k) plans... and real estate stocks are part of the solution. |
On Wall Street April 1, 2010 Trone & Harvey |
Are The Retirement Waters Now Murkier? A 40-page document of new regulations from the Department of Labor sets out to ease the challenges of offering investment advice to retirement plan participants and to lessen any conflicts of interest. |
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. |
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... |
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. |
Financial Advisor September 2009 John Carl |
Your Clients' Retirement DNA Understanding a client's many savings plans, as well as her career path and investment choices, means you're ready to analyze how she's uniquely positioned for retirement. |
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 Planning July 1, 2007 Walls & Knight |
Buy Default The Pension Protection Act gives business owners more effective ways to deploy the default option in their 401(k) 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. |
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 June 28, 2004 Selena Maranjian |
Retirement Funds Ballooning Investors have fatter retirement accounts, with much in mutual funds. |
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 Planning April 1, 2012 Donna Mitchell |
The BIG Fix Familiar as 401(k)s are, planners love to hate them, and they'll readily cite long lists of faults with the plans themselves, as well as the way the $2.8 trillion 401(k) industry operates. |
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. |
The Motley Fool January 18, 2007 Mary Dalrymple |
Retirement and Irrational Man, Part 2 If you've stuck with the default options in your 401(k) because you were automatically enrolled in the savings plan, it's time to take a look at your contributions and investments. |
Registered Rep. February 10, 2012 Mark Miller |
New Focus on Small Workplace Retirement Plans Means Lower Fees, Opportunity for RIAs The spoils of the 401(k) market have always gone to the large players -- big retirement plan providers providing the best, most efficient plans to big plan sponsors. But small is starting to look beautiful. |
The Motley Fool July 6, 2011 Dan Caplinger |
Make Your Retirement Savings Go Further People have saved more than ever, but how can they utilize the best strategies to turn their investments into cash? |
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? |
CFO February 1, 2008 Russ Banham |
Exit Strategies How companies can help retiring employees smooth the transition from savers to consumers. |
CFO August 1, 2002 Kris Frieswick |
Honey, I Shrunk The 401(k) The bear market has clobbered 401(k) accounts -- and could spark a revival of defined benefit plans. |
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 December 2003 Jeff Schlegel |
Qualified Plans Rock Through Bear Market The rising demand for advice is changing the 401(k) business. |
The Motley Fool March 31, 2005 Dan Otter |
403(b)etter or Worse? Teachers and others stand to gain and lose with new retirement plan rules. |
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 October 1, 2010 Donna Mitchell |
The Catalyst Ted Benna, developed the workplace-sponsored 401(k) retirement plan, is arguably the most influential employee benefits consultant working today. |
The Motley Fool September 8, 2006 Ryan Popple |
Beware the Botched 401(k) While 401(k)s offer more control and impressive tax benefits, they also chronically underperform managed pension funds. We are going to need our 401(k)s for our future financial security, and we have to do a better job of managing them. |
The Motley Fool March 10, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
Where Smart Investors Put Their Money More investors are taking advantage of this strong retirement-based opportunity. Are you? |
The Motley Fool February 7, 2005 Rich Duprey |
Retire the IRS Way? Regulation proposal will offer sweeping overhaul of 403(b) plans. Feb. 14 deadline for public comment nears. |
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. |
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. |
Real Estate Portfolio Nov/Dec 2003 Art Gering |
Undefined Contributions Although a large number of companies invest in real estate in their defined benefit plans, many deny their employees the same advantages in their 401(k) plans. |
The Motley Fool February 3, 2010 Chuck Saletta |
Forget Your Kids! Focus on Your Own Future If it comes down to choosing between funding a child's college education, or funding your own retirement, focus on your own future first. |
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. |
The Motley Fool February 28, 2011 Amanda B. Kish |
Good News for 401(k) Investors The news is good, but not good enough, when it comes to saving for retirement. |
The Motley Fool November 29, 2010 Selena Maranjian |
What Employers Want to Do When You're Not Looking Our employers are helping us out via 401(k)s and similar retirement plans, but for most of us, that's far from enough. |
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. |
The Motley Fool February 24, 2011 Dan Caplinger |
Make This Move Now and Save Your Retirement 401(k)s are back -- but you have to use them wisely. |
Registered Rep. October 1, 2006 John Churchill |
Deciphering the Rules of Retirement Advice Title VI of the the Pension Protection Act, far from being a clear-cut signal for reps to dive into the retirement advice business, does, however, open the door wider to advice giving. |
The Motley Fool September 7, 2007 Rich Duprey |
Add Horsepower to Your Retirement Starting your retirement plan late? Just because you've fallen behind, there's no reason to stay behind. Supercharge it with this two-step program. |
Investment Advisor November 2006 |
Now and Then When it comes to plowing through the complexities that are associated with retirement planning, advisors need all the help they can get. Fidelity looks ahead to dominate retirement planning now. |
Financial Planning September 1, 2013 Ilana Polyak |
For Advisors, a Big 401(k) Opportunity As regulatory scrutiny of plans increases, advisors are in the sweet spot to capture new business. |
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. |
Financial Advisor December 2009 Karen DeMasters |
A New Game Rule changes in 2010 for retirement plans offer advisors opportunity to help employers and their workers. |
Investment Advisor September 2006 Melanie Waddell |
Retirement Planning: Some Good News on Pensions Advisors praise the new Pension Act. |
The Motley Fool July 8, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
The Best Fix for the 401(k) Mess The federal employees' perfect retirement plan is already right before your eyes. |
The Motley Fool March 25, 2008 Chuck Saletta |
The World's Easiest Retirement Plan Doing anything -- anything at all! -- to prepare for retirement, is better than doing nothing. Read on for our simple plan. |
HBS Working Knowledge June 30, 2008 Julia Hanna |
Rethinking Retirement Planning Defined contribution plans currently offered by the majority of employers place an undue burden on workers who don't have the interest, time, or expertise to manage their finances. |
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. |