Retirement

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401(k) Plans Investment Menu: Best Practices

2016-12-14T17:05:42-08:00

Investment Menu:  Best Practices Due to regulatory changes, market instability and large numbers of investment options, plan sponsors have been devoting more attention to their plans’ investment menus. A recent commentary from Vanguard identifies five best practices to assist plan sponsors in evaluating their menus while effectively communicating their plans to participants. To develop a [...]

401(k) Plans Investment Menu: Best Practices2016-12-14T17:05:42-08:00

Roth 401(k) Plans: Reviewing the Basics

2016-12-14T17:05:42-08:00

Sponsors of 401(k) plans have been permitted to amend their plans to accept Roth (after-tax) contributions since 2006. Plan participants can benefit from having their Roth contributions grow with tax-free earnings, and their contributions can be distributed to them at retirement with no future income tax liability. Unlike a Roth IRA, participation has no income [...]

Roth 401(k) Plans: Reviewing the Basics2016-12-14T17:05:42-08:00

Retirement Planning Tip: Maximize Employer Match

2016-12-14T17:05:44-08:00

More than 75% of those contributing to an employer-sponsored retirement savings plan receive matching contributions, and more than three-fourths of those participants contribute enough to receive the full match, according to TIAA-CREF’s Perfect Match Survey. But, only 72% of women and 64% of workers earning less than $35,000 annually receive the entire match. Many people [...]

Retirement Planning Tip: Maximize Employer Match2016-12-14T17:05:44-08:00

Retirement Readiness: Getting Employees’ Attention Is Key

2016-12-14T17:05:45-08:00

Having an effective employee engagement strategy is the most important component of a successful retirement plan, according to a recent white paper. The impacts of plan design, plan management, and investment solutions are all reduced without one. Engaging employees involves three major factors. First, plan sponsors need to understand that different employee groups, based on [...]

Retirement Readiness: Getting Employees’ Attention Is Key2016-12-14T17:05:45-08:00

Gen X Is Not Prepared to Retire

2016-12-14T17:05:45-08:00

Workers between the ages of 37 and 50 are poorly prepared for retirement, according to the 15th Annual Transamerica Retirement Survey of Workers. Only 24% of Generation X (those born between 1965 and 1978) reported that their greatest financial priority is saving for retirement. One-third of survey respondents expect a decline in their standard of [...]

Gen X Is Not Prepared to Retire2016-12-14T17:05:45-08:00

Beyond Retirement: What About Your Other Financial Goals?

2016-12-14T17:05:59-08:00

In addition to saving for retirement, there may be several other major financial goals you'll need to juggle in a lifetime. Let's say that at the age of 25 you earned $35,000. If your salary increased at the average historical rate, you'd have earned nearly $2 million in total by the time you were 65.¹ [...]

Beyond Retirement: What About Your Other Financial Goals?2016-12-14T17:05:59-08:00

Using CRUTs & CRATs to Sell Your Business Interest

2016-12-14T17:06:00-08:00

These estate planning tools may also help in exit planning. Discover a pair of underappreciated exit planning vehicles. Charitable remainder unit trusts (CRUTs) and charitable remainder annuity trusts (CRATs) are commonly seen as estate planning tools. What frequently goes unseen is their value in exit planning for business owners. Does it look like you will [...]

Using CRUTs & CRATs to Sell Your Business Interest2016-12-14T17:06:00-08:00

Pension Plans & Derisking

2016-12-14T17:06:01-08:00

Corporations are transferring pension liabilities to third parties. Where does this leave retirees? A new phrase has made its way into the contemporary financial jargon: derisking. Anyone with assets in an old-school pension plan should know what that phrase signifies. The derisking trend began in 2012. In that year, Ford Motor Co. made a controversial [...]

Pension Plans & Derisking2016-12-14T17:06:01-08:00

Creating a Budget for Retirement

2016-12-14T17:06:06-08:00

It only makes sense – yet many retirees live without one. The importance of creating a budget for retirement. You won’t be able to withdraw an unlimited amount of money in retirement, so a retirement budget is a necessity. Some retirees forego one, only to regret it later. Run the numbers before you retire. Years [...]

Creating a Budget for Retirement2016-12-14T17:06:06-08:00

Getting Financially Fit for Retirement at 50

2016-12-14T17:06:07-08:00

Things for trailing-edge boomers & Gen Xers to consider. When you turn 50, retirement starts to seem less abstract. In terms of retirement planning, a 50th birthday can act as a wake-up call. It may offer a powerful reminder to trailing-edge baby boomers and Gen Xers, many of whom are wrapping up their second act [...]

Getting Financially Fit for Retirement at 502016-12-14T17:06:07-08:00
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