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- 1From:CFO, The Magazine for Senior Financial Executives (Vol. 22, Issue 6)A SMALL BUT GROWING band of employers is fueling a rebellion against long-opaque cost structures in the 401(k) plan market. Working with pension consultants to ferret out esoteric expenses, these plan sponsors are...
- 2From:CFO, The Magazine for Senior Financial Executives (Vol. 21, Issue 6)Rule No. 1: Inertia dominates human actions. Rule No. 2: People fear loss much more than they value gain. As two tenets of behavioral finance, these principles are still largely confined to being studied in the...
- 3From:Medical Economics (Vol. 71, Issue 8)401(k) salary reduction plans continue to be excellent deals, but some of the plan's special features could cause expensive problems or get the plan disqualified. For example, if employees' contributions drop because an...
- 4From:Financial Executive (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedSen. Barbara Boxer submitted a proposal to limit investment of 401(k) plans in employer securities in the summer of 1996. However, her effort to include the bill to the Small Business Job Protection Act just before the...
- 5From:CFO, The Magazine for Senior Financial Executives (Vol. 13, Issue 10)The third generation of the 401(k) plan has emerged. Companies are changing the bundled structure of their 401(k) plans as a response to their employees outcry for diverse investment options. One of which is Lear Corp.,...
- 6From:Financial Executive (Vol. 13, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe IRS is waging a campaign to ensure that the 401(k) plans of all employers are in compliance with the provisions of ERISA. It has introduced the Employee Plans Return Inventory Classification System to compare...
- 7From:The CPA Journal (Vol. 86, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedRetirement plan committees are increasingly selecting passively managed funds for their 401(k) plan investment menus, in many instances to replace actively managed funds. Recent excessive fee lawsuits, as well as...
- 8From:Medical Economics (Vol. 90, Issue 4)Buried in the new tax law is a great opportunity to reduce the amount of taxes you'll have to pay when you start withdrawing funds from your 401(k) or 403(b) plan--provided you're willing to pay taxes on the money now....
- 9From:People & Strategy (Vol. 31, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed"Change has come to America," declared President-elect Barack Obama, making history on the night of November 4, 2008. Much of our country, including supporters of Senator McCain, and the world smiled as We the People...
- 10From:Medical Economics (Vol. 85, Issue 4)An informal poll of certified public accountants found that more of them may get into the business of retirement planning, by offering 401(k) plans to their clients, according to a recent article in Investment News. The...
- 11From:Journal of Accountancy (Vol. 201, Issue 4)[] Executive compensation rules under IRC section 409A. The American Jobs Creation Act's new IRC section 409A makes sweeping changes to the tax rules governing nonqualified deferred compensation arrangements such as...
- 12From:Medical Economics (Vol. 82, Issue 15)Just 13 percent of 401(k) retirement plan participants who could make catch-up contributions to their nest eggs actually did so, says a study by The Vanguard Group, which looked at approximately 2,000 plans that it...
- 13From:Medical Economics (Vol. 82, Issue 9)Q How much deferred salary can an employee who'll turn 50 in October 2005 contribute to the practice's 401 (k) plan for the year, and what's the most she can defer before October? A The maximum contribution by 401(k)...
- 14From:CFO, The Magazine for Senior Financial Executives (Vol. 20, Issue 5)Despite the millions of dollars companies have poured into online investment tools, a new study by consulting firm Greenwich Associates reveals that only 35 percent of employees are using them to manage their 401(k)...
- 15From:Medical Economics (Vol. 81, Issue 1)Q: I've been offered a position with a nonprofit organization that allows tax-deductible salary deferrals via a 403(b) plan. Is this similar to a 401(k) plan? A: Generally yes, but the plans have some differences. A...
- 16From:Financial Executive (Vol. 20, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedConfronted with declining investment markets, soft job prospects and increased healthcare costs, American workers have been cutting back on their 401(k) plan savings, according to an annual survey by PlanSponsor...
- 17From:The CPA Journal (Vol. 73, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedConventional wisdom holds that investors should never tap into their retirement funds until they actually retire. Nevertheless, a confluence of recent events--stubbornly low interest rates, volatile equity markets, and...
- 18From:Medical Economics (Vol. 80, Issue 3)Investors are paying less attention to their 401(k) accounts than they did two years ago, according to a study by Mutual of Omaha and the Profit Sharing/401(k) Council of America. A total of 81 percent of 401(k)...
- 19From:Risk Management (Vol. 49, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedWhen Enron's share prices dropped to $13.81/share in mid-October 2001 (after having been as high as $90/share in 2000), Enron instituted a "blackout" period that prohibited any change in participant investments. By the...
- 20From:Benefits Law Journal (Vol. 28, Issue 4)As originally envisioned, 401(k) and like plans offered tax-deferred savings vehicles to supplement the retirement benefits (typically annuities) provided by traditional defined benefit pension plans. (1) However, in a...