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Shoring up your 401(k).(Investing For Tough Times)(Cover Story)
After the battering your portfolio took last year, you have to think about regrouping for safety and diversification. Below, you'll learn how to get the most out of your 401(k) and other retirement savings. In the report starting on page 40, we list a variety of mutual funds that have outpaced others in their categories.
Many Americans don't give much thought to their 401(k)s. According to the National Bureau of Economic Research, they open a plan, choose some mutual funds, and then leave it on automatic pilot. Events last year, however, forced investors to reconsider their benign neglect. A stock-market battering that sank the Standard & Poor's 500 Index by ...
- UNLIKELY ALLIES PUSH PENSION REFORM PLAN SOCIAL SECURITY ILLS UNITE MUTUAL...
- Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) January 11, 1997 700+ words
...NEW YORK -- The quest for Social Security reform has produced an odd couple: mutual funds guru Peter Lynch and John...s call for a two-tier social security system that would allow part of Social Security taxes to be invested in...
- Social Security plan may add billions to mutual funds, brokerage accounts.
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) January 9, 2005 700+ words
...Any plan that takes money out of Social Security will make Social Security's problems worse." In this...out there lobbying in favor of mutual funds being a vehicle of investment for Social Security funds," said Paul Schott Stevens...
- BOGLE SUGGESTS ANSWER TO SOCIAL SECURITY ILLS: KEEP ASSETS OUT OF MUTUAL FUNDS,...
- Magazine article from: Pensions & Investments January 11, 1999 700+ words
...allowed to invest Social Security assets in the stock...load and indexed mutual funds shared his views...debate on reforming Social Security? John C. Bogle...come. Raising the Social Security wage base will happen...
- Why a Social Security 'crisis' grows more remote.(Features)(Work &...
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor April 10, 2000 700+ words
...Like a mirage on a desert road, the Social Security "crisis" keeps fading into the distance...receipts are currently pouring into the Social Security trust fund at a rate well in excess...pensioners and the disabled. But the Social Security trustees, in their March 30 report...
- MISLEADING STATEMENTS.(Social Security's mailing of individualized statements...
- Magazine article from: Pensions & Investments November 1, 1999 700+ words
...That they weren't is one reason Social Security has been able to keep its administrative...supposedly higher administrative costs of mutual funds whenever privatization of Social Security is discussed. Mutual funds could save a lot of money, too...
- QUESTIONS OVER PRIVATE SOCIAL SECURITY \ SCALE, RISKS RAISE DOUBTS.(MoneyWise)
- Newspaper article from: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH) November 16, 2004 700+ words
...prospect of individual Social Security accounts. President...brokerage firms and mutual funds -- endorses private Social Security accounts, some investment...large chunk of their Social Security tax into mutual funds, "it would get up...
- Social Security High on New ACB Head's Agenda.(America's Community Bankers,...
- Magazine article from: American Banker Kline, Alan November 8, 2001 700+ words
...Many experts say that the Social Security trust fund will be insolvent...invest a portion of their Social Security dollars in mutual funds, certificates of deposit...instruments. The President's Social Security Commission is expected to...
- SOCIAL SECURITY: THERE'S NOTHING TO TALK ABOUT THE STOCK MARKET IS NOT A BETTER...
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) April 28, 1998 700+ words
...presently do. Divert Social Security payroll taxes into mutual funds, and guess who...the politics of Social Security ``reform...Unlike private mutual funds, which must advertise...the American Social Security System operates...
