Tag: retirement security
The brief’s key findings are: Mutual fund companies that are trustees of 401(k) plans must serve plan participants’ needs, but they also have an incentive to promote their own funds. The analysis suggests that these trustees tend to favor their own funds, especially their poor-quality funds. And 401(k) participants do not offset this bias by…
The brief’s key findings are: Between 2010 and 2013, the National Retirement Risk Index improved only slightly, dropping from 53 percent to 52 percent of working-age households. This result may seem surprising given that the stock market was up and housing prices had begun to rebound. But other factors – Social Security’s rising “Full Retirement…
