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01/05/11|San Francisco Chronicle

401(k) funds must disclose fees under new rules

Starting in 2012, participants in 401(k) and 403(b) retirement plans will finally see how much they are paying in fees, which should help them make better investment choices and pressure employers to improve high-cost plans.

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01/05/11|TheStreet.com

Retirement Plan Participants Keep Dropping

The number of employees participating in a retirement plan continued to drop last year, continuing a trend that intensified during the recession and reaching its lowest level in a decade.

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01/05/11|Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, NY)

Kodak retirees hear about potential pitfalls

The photo and imaging company has many times more retirees than employees, which leads to some potentially unsettling choices the company might have to make regarding retiree benefits and pensions.

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01/05/11|National Underwriter

Genworth: Caregiving Slams Retirement Savings

Caring for a loved one can play havoc with the caregiver’s efforts to save for retirement.

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01/05/11|TheStreet.com

Retirement ‘Deficit’ Measured in Trillions

The financial gap between what Americans need for retirement and what they have is $4.6 trillion as a national aggregate and an average $48,000 per person, according to congressional testimony by the Employee Benefit Research Institute.

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01/05/11|Napa Valley Register

Women and retirement

Of women between the ages 75 and 84 live alone. This fact has terribly important financial implications.

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01/05/11|Investment News

Automatic IRA ‘death knell of private-pension system’: Attorney

Industry leaders are urging advisers to stand united against a measure in Congress that would require businesses without a retirement plan to institute an automatic individual retirement account.

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01/05/11|Kansas City Star

Experts advise against using retirement accounts to pay for children’s college

Call it a cardinal sin of saving for college. As the cost of tuition, room and board continues to go through the roof, more parents are planning to crack open their retirement nest eggs to pay the bills, according to “How America Saves for College,” a report released this week by Gallup and college lender […]

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01/05/11|Forbes

401ks: America’s Biggest Investment Fraud Was Foreseen and Preventable

Calling these workplace mainstays a “retirement plan” ought to be a crime.

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01/05/11|New York Times

Workers Not Saving Enough to Get 401(k) Match

It’s free money, yet a large percentage of Americans are increasingly leaving it on the table.

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01/05/11|Money Management Executive via Financial Planning

40% of Workers Plan to Delay Retirement

Four in 10 workers are planning to delay their retirement, according to a survey of 9,100 employees by Towers Watson. Sixty-eight percent of older workers said they were making the delay to keep healthcare coverage, and 61% blamed the decline in their 401(k).

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01/05/11|South Bend Tribune

Shift in retirement benefits

Attorney Richard Urda explains changes in pension guarantees.