While much has been written of the lack of retirement savings among Americans, the most widely talked about change – lowering the cap on tax deductions – could exasperate the lack of retirement savings.
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Fiduciary irony, fee disbelief, and investment deja vu.
The wrong way to save retirement, the truth about “clean” shares, and Investing: It’s all your fault!
This is not to say the 401k is perfect and that there’s no need to improve it. These improvements, though, would be more like tweaks rather than wholesale changes.
Compliance test, plan sponsor fiduciary awareness, and the similarity between Paul McCartney’s grandfather and the future of mutual funds.
But, as the cliché goes, “What about the children?” Arguably, it is minor children who have the best (and easiest) opportunity to shield themselves from a retirement crisis. They have the advantage of time (to maximize the benefits of compound interest).
Pension problems, spaghetti regs, and the never ending battle between stocks and bonds.
In this retirement plan version of the game “Who Killed Cock Robin?” we can identify three macroeconomic trends that slayed the pension plan, once the giant among all retirement plans. But, where does the 401k fit in?
State pension implosion, a regulation without teeth, and the fee-value correlation.
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Cap Cutting, Back Burners, and Eternal Truths