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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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This is a fun TED talk on a topic all of us can relate to: procrastination. It is relevant to a central theme of this blog: retirement. Research shows that procrastination plays at least a small role in why so many U.S. workers haven’t saved enough to retire in the lifestyle they’re accustomed to. T…