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401(k)

• Organize Your Finances: You May Find Hidden Money

  If you're one of those efficient, organized, motivated people with a pristine credit rating and no real skill set in procrastination, stop reading now. (And don't expect me to go drinking with you, either.) This is for the rest of us. We who have piles of financial paper cluttering up the...

  Blog posts | Oct 22, 2009

• NYT About Your 401 (k): Missing the Point on Retirement Reform

  The New York Times weighed in on the debate over 401 (k) plans this morning. There are a number of ideas that sound just peachy in the la-la land that the Editors must believe exists. But there's little in the piece that helps advance feasible retirement solutions here in the real world....

  Blog posts | Aug 24, 2009

• Invest for Growth Without Getting Burned

  The young parents? investing strategy is two parts saving, one part risk. Here are four ways to maximize your wealth-building without sending your stress meter into the red zone. Each had already been living by that mantra. Determined to get into TV, Reena had traded her hometown of Louisville...

  Articles | Oct 21, 2009

• Investor Expectations Down 25 Percent: Welcome to the New Normal

  Vanguard’s Center for Retirement Research recently checked in with 3,000+ regular folks  (not economists or market diviners) to gauge our post-crash expectations. The median of our collective crystal-balling settled on 7.5 percent as the expected average annual return for the markets...

  Blog posts | Oct 21, 2009

• Should You Pay Off Your Mortgage?

  It can give you a great sense of financial freedom, but it might not be worth the cost. Editor-in-chief Eric Schurenberg offers some guidelines.

  Videos | Oct 16, 2009

• Fidelity Makes the Case Against the 401(k)

  Fidelity just released its quarterly analysis of accounts in the 17,500 401(k) plans it administers. The nation's number one administrator and manager of 401(k) assets reports that the balance in its average account rose 13.5% to $53,900--a nice jump. Then, in an odd follow-up feature, it listed...

  Blog posts | Aug 14, 2009

• Don't Just Do Something

  From its low on March 9 to its high this week, the S&P 500 has had a 50 percent move. Thanks to the law of large numbers that doesn't come close to retracing what the market lost in the crash. Still, 50-point moves don't come along very often -- not in five-month spurts, anyway -- and they're...

  Blog posts | Aug 6, 2009

• Time For A 401(k) Checkup

  We're a little more than half way through the year, and it's time to give your 401(k) a checkup. You want to ensure you're on track to maximize the tax savings, get all the match possible and that your investment allocation is in good shape given all the violent moves in the markets since...

  Blog posts | Aug 4, 2009

• Roth on Roth IRAs and 401(k)s

  Which is better - Roth or Traditional? Let's dispel a rule of thumb and get to the easy answer. by Allan Roth

  Blog posts | Jul 30, 2009

• Time to Replace the 401(k)

  A couple weeks ago, I blogged that the 401(k) had failed. My point was that we had taken a perfectly decent supplementary savings plan and, without any real discussion, allowed it to become the sole source of most workers' non-Social Security retirement income. The 401(k) was not designed for...

  Blog posts | Jul 29, 2009