Tag: retirement savings
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…
The most effective way to save for retirement is through a workplace-based retirement plan, but many workers lack access to one. To help close this gap, a number of states have adopted programs that require employers without a plan to auto-enroll their workers in an Individual Retirement Account (IRA). These accounts use the Roth structure,…
