The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) in a recent article posed what I view as a rhetorical question; “Do you really know what’s inside your 401(k)?” Rhetorical in that I suspect the answer from most people — ...
A session of the Employee Benefit Research Institute’s (EBRI) Dec. 11 symposium concerned Gen X and the degree to which its members are — or are not — ready for retirement. In that session, LinkedIn ...
How about some good news? The Investment Company Institute has reported that total U.S. retirement assets hit a new record high at the end of the second quarter. According to the organization’s report ...
Employers are expanding their Roth offerings, according to data from the PSCA’s 68th Annual 401(k) Survey. In fact, they found that the percentage of plans offering a Roth contribution option climbed ...
A bill is before the Michigan House of Representatives that would allow funds from the state’s Public Employee Retirement System to be invested in cryptocurrency. Leonard Gilroy, Senior Managing ...
The government is happy to oblige — it has released informational copies of the Form 5500 Series for reporting about 2025 plan years. On Dec. 15, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), IRS, and Pension ...
House Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-Mass.) on Dec. 15 reintroduced a bill that would establish a federal auto-IRA for employers with more than 10 employees and that do not ...
The HSA catch-up contribution increase is a strong nudge for participants to contribute more, including those who were previously constrained by the HSA contribution limit. So says a new study ...
The big three state auto IRAs — those run by California, Illinois, and Oregon, which are the oldest and so far the largest such programs — had reasons to give thanks in November. But that was more the ...
nondeductible contributions you made to traditional IRAs; distributions from traditional IRAs, if you have a basis in these IRAs; conversions from traditional IRAs to Roth IRAs; and distributions from ...
The American Retirement Association (ARA) in a statement for the record has called on Congress to adopt legislation that would help expand retirement plan coverage for people who still do not have ...
On Dec. 12, the IRS unveiled the covered compensation tables that will be effective Jan. 1, 2026. The new data is contained in Revenue Ruling (Rev. Rul.) 2026-01. This revenue ruling provides tables ...