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Retirees face the risk of outliving their money
Until recently, retirement planning focused mostly on helping workers accumulate savings. Now, the Treasury Department is tackling another aspect: making sure retirees don't run out of money. The department last week proposed two regulations to make...Tags: Insurance, MetLife Incorporated, Employees, White House, Employment Opportunities
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Workers must start getting 401(k) fee disclosures late summer
Amazingly, the government has had to require businesses that provide accounting, recordkeeping, legal and other services to 401(k) plans to tell employers just how much they are being paid -- and if they have any conflicts of interest. Read my earlier...Tags: Employees, Business Enterprises
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Free enterprise on trial -- who bears the risks?
As Newt Gingrich lashes out at "liberal elites," Mitt Romney is casting the 2012 campaign as "free enterprise on trial" -- and Mr. Romney defines free enterprise as achieving success through "risk-taking." U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donahue,...Tags: Jamie Dimon, Health Insurance, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Health and Safety at Work
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Many workers are in the dark about 401(k) fees
Survey after survey shows that many workers don't know how much they shell out in 401(k) fees — or that they even pay them. But can you blame employees? Fees aren't transparent, and account statements usually reflect the balance after the charges...Tags: T. Rowe Price, Apples, Mutual Funds, Employment, Companies and Corporations
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How does your savings rate measure up for your age?
How much in savings and investments should you have by age 35 or 45? Or, for that matter, at 65 when you're likely to be near retirement? If you don't know, you have plenty of company. So many figures are bounced about that it's often difficult for...Tags: Mortgages, Demographics, T. Rowe Price, Personal Finance, Retirement
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The occupation will be televised, at least on the Web
The scene was more or less what I'd expected: lots of tents, lots of animated conversations among bohemian types who hadn't had enough sleep. But something was missing. "I didn't hear any drumming," I remarked as Robert Brune and I made the drive back...Tags: Activism, Facebook, Unions, Manhattan (New York City), Media Industry
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Make moves now to lower next year's tax bill
Year-end tax planning these next several weeks will be refreshingly straightforward for a change. The past few years have been fraught with so much uncertainty about income tax rates, estate taxes and expiring deductions that planning wasn't easy. A year...Tags: Natural Disasters, Charity, Customs and Tradition, Disasters, Government Health Care
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The economy? It's my fault: Confessions of a chastened consumer
I may owe the nation an apology. It turns out I'm a prime reason why the U.S. economy can't regain its footing. Because as a wage-earner, and as a consumer, I'm not what I used to be.
My full-time newspaper job was cut in September 2008, and since...Tags: Finance, Consumers, Social Security, Wages and Pensions, Layoffs and Downsizing
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Contribution limits to 401(k) to go up
When the federal government recently raised the benefits for Social Security recipients, it also lifted the amount of money you can salt away in tax-friendly retirement accounts. Beginning next year, you can put away up to $17,000 — $500 more...Tags: Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Personal Finance, Retirement, Employees
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In volatile market, some see bargains, others, pitfalls
As the Dow took another 400-point tumble Thursday, Baltimore money manager David Stepherson found himself talking one client out of selling everything. "I advised him that it would not be a good idea because our view of things is that this is going to be...Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Personal Finance, Companies and Corporations, Hewlett-Packard Co., Mutual Funds
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Harford delegates and senators brush off O'Malley's hint of tax increases
Harford County's elected officials are surprised that Gov. Martin O'Malley mentioned the possibility of raising taxes this upcoming year, but had mixed views on how likely it was to happen, or what the state's economic situation actually might be. They...Tags: Regional Authority, Martin O'Malley, Budgets and Budgeting, Local Government, Elections
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45,000 Verizon workers strike as company seeks benefits downgrades
Almost half the workers in Verizon Communications Inc.'s wireline telecommunications business went on strike Sunday as negotiations for a new labor contract failed. The strike, involving 45,000 workers, is the first walkout that Verizon, one of the two...Tags: Computing and Information Technology Industry, Retirement, Companies and Corporations, Unions, Labor Legislation
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