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Forty percent of U.S. private-sector workers in a 401(k) retirement plan are in plans with automatic enrollment, and the widely agreed-upon story is that these plans work well. Now comes a more nuanced assessment, which finds they aren’t working quite as well as everyone had hoped. The study, conducted by some of the pioneers in…

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The minority of Americans who have a financial adviser say they feel pretty good about where they are. It’s everyone else who is largely dissatisfied with their finances. Among the workers and retirees who consult a financial adviser, two out of three describe themselves as financially secure, and the others are presumably working on it…