Financing Retirement
Ending ‘regulation by litigation’ may erode some protections for workers. Most people likely think their employer’s role in providing a 401(k) stops at choosing the provider, match rate, and investment options. What most workers probably don’t know is that under the law governing 401(k)s – the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) – employers must…
Emergency expenses are eating up a lot of retirees’ money. A few months ago, a colleague asked me what I thought about annuities in 401(k) plans. Before Harvard reclaims my Ph.D., let me lay out the merits of annuities. Annuities are contracts that provide a stream of monthly payments in exchange for a premium. T…
