Expense ratios in 401(k) plans fall
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While the array of 401(k) choices can at first seem daunting, many workers appear to be seeing one thing clearly: The value of lower expenses.
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This decade has been a tough one for fund investors. The average stock fund has lost almost 6 percent annually since the beginning of 2000, a return that encompasses huge losses from 2000 through 2002 and big gains in 2003.
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Last week&#39;s disclosure by International Business Machines Corp. that it will close its traditional pension plans to new employees and give the new hires only a 401(k) plan is more than
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Unfortunately, your portfolio gains can mean someone else's loss.
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Investor's Business Daily - So you're socking away money in your 401(k). You're dreaming of retirement in a nice condo in Florida, where you'll spend your days fishing or playing golf.
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Maybe you're saving too much for retirement. You may also be eating too many vegetables, spending too much time with the kids, exercising too regularly and doing your job too diligently.
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Retirement savers have a dizzying array of options these days. Which is right for you?
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By now if you are investing in a 401(k) or similar workplace retirement plan, you know that the ups and downs of the stock market or economy can affect the returns of your investment portfolio.
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The latest Federal Reserve Survey of Consumer Finances shows that Americans invest their taxable accounts and their tax-deferred accounts--their 401(k)s and Individual Retirement Accounts--almost identically, devoting just over two-thirds of each to stocks. Those who do this are stupid. They should put bonds into the sheltered accounts and stocks into the taxable accounts.
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As many pension plans have failed in the past three years, some high earners who retired early have been left with pensions much lower than what they had expected.
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Carefully consider between funds in your retirement plan.
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A new study of average annual returns of traditional pensions and 401(k) plans shows that these two very different types of plans performed about the same.
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What you don't know about your 401(k) can really hurt your retirement.
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US mutual fund assets fell 2 percent to $7.4 trillion last month, as declining equity markets reduced the value of stock funds, according to a survey conducted by the Investment Company Institute.
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Savings bonds aren't paying what they used to.
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Quarterly losses narrowed to $59 million, or 16 cents per share, from $139 million, or 43 cents per share, a year ago. Excluding about $63 million in restructuring, transformation and integration costs, the
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A lot of people got excited when Fidelity Investments announced recently that it was cutting fees on five index mutual funds. You heard talk about price wars with the Vanguard Group, of a new &quot;low-cost leader&quot; in fund investing and more.