Tag: Individual Retirement Accounts
With fewer protections and guardrails, we have a much less effective system. The most extraordinary development in the U.S. private sector retirement system is not the shift away from old-fashioned defined benefit plans, which began around 1980 and is virtually complete today, but rather the movement away from 401(k) plans, which replaced the defined benefit…
Let’s see if fintech and state auto-IRAs are making a difference. Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs), which hold over half of total private retirement assets, were introduced as a way for workers without an employer-sponsored plan to save for retirement. Instead, they have been primarily used as a vehicle for rollovers from employer-sponsored plans, with direct…
