In the wake of the tax reform bills passage, Visa is upping its retirement plan match, making it excel among its peers, and Aflac and SunTrust have increased retirement plan benefits as well. Will other companies follow suit?
Employees who are actively watching their stocks in their retirement plan might panic at the recent volatility of tech stocks, but there's nothing wrong with having tech stocks in a 401(k).
Policies that limit or abolish retirement savings incentives to make tax reform revenue neutral in a 10-year budget window could ultimately have negative long-term budget implications, says the IRI.
While pledging to protect retirement savings, Trump's proposed tax code plan does not say whether the existing tax-preferred treatment of contributions to retirement plans are spared.
A shift in how people are saving in their 401(k)s may give private equity a new way in -- keeping firms like Carlyle, Blackstone Group LP and KKR & Co. eyeing the $4.8 trillion that U.S. workers have saved in their retirement plans.
Target-date funds represent more than 10 percent of assets in the top 30 401(k) plans in the U.S., Brightscope says, as it released its top 30 best 401(k) plan list.