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  • April 10, 2024

The last-minute IRA dash before Tax Day is real

Contributions to IRAs are up significantly this season for the 2023 tax year, according to Fidelity.

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  • April 9, 2024

Saver’s Match provides big incentive for 401(k) contributions

A new survey builds on research showing the provision's potential reach and effect on retirement security.

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James Caan estate case highlights rollover rules advisors need to know

An offer the IRS refused! The estate owes nearly $1 million in taxes and penalties.

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  • March 5, 2024

SECURE 2.0 Saver’s Match could help 21.9M Americans

Using federal tax data, EBRI offers a ‘starting point’ to estimate the retirement program’s impact on lower-income workers when it starts in 2027.

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  • February 28, 2024

Robinhood wants gig workers’ IRA business

The company announced an IRA that's available through Grubhub, Taskrabbit, and Gopuff.

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  • February 28, 2024

Retirement savers finished 2023 on a high note, Fidelity says

Three-quarters of eligible workers made contributions to their accounts amid near-universal inclusion of Roth options in workplace savings plans.

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  • February 16, 2024

SEC orders TIAA to pay $2.2M for violating Reg BI

Disclosure failures at the organization’s broker-dealer arm led to nearly $1 million in unnecessary costs for retail customers in IRAs.

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  • February 7, 2024

Gen Z zooming past older generations in saving for retirement

Data on DC plans and IRAs show young families are accumulating retirement assets faster than ever.

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  • February 1, 2024

Robinhood is paying 3 percent bonuses for IRA rollovers. Is it enough?

It's a concept that's hardly new in financial services, but the brokerage is offering significantly more than competitors.

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  • January 24, 2024

Could limiting tax breaks for 401(k)s rescue Social Security?

As Social Security inches closer to insolvency, the tax breaks provided to 401(k)s, defined-benefit plans and IRAs could be revamped to fix the system, according to a recent paper.

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  • October 13, 2023

SoFi matches Robinhood’s 1% IRA match

The company's sprawling range of financial services include retirement accounts, which it is actively pursuing.

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  • June 29, 2023

Investors favoring taxable accounts over IRAs, 401(k)s

As wealthier clients approach retirement, advisors must focus on income strategies, Hearts & Wallets says.

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To rethink our retirement ‘system,’ go Down Under

While American policymakers tend to ignore the approaches of other nations, looking at the Australian experience might make sense.

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DC industry must cooperate to resolve forgotten-accounts problem

Anyone who has tried to roll assets out of a DC plan knows how difficult and time-consuming it can be.

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Employment uncertainty tests financial plans

Investment advice may take back seat to financial wellness as advisers' clients worry about the state of the economy and the prospect of losing their job

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  • November 12, 2020

Contributions to retirement accounts steady, but withdrawals up: Fidelity

CARES Act distributions averaging $9,000 were taken by 1.2 million account holders

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  • October 1, 2020

CalSavers registers thousands of businesses, will see bump

Numerous other state auto-IRA programs are in development, and the plans should be thinking about drawdown strategies, a report suggests

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Advisers can shine a light on the darkness of 2020

Financial advisers are ideally situated to help clients talk through the unforeseen challenges a global pandemic brings

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4 unusual IRA issues related to deaths in 2020

New tax rules for this year may change the results that you expected

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  • April 21, 2020

No free lunch (not even for Tom Hanks) on IRA distributions

Ed Slott separates fact from fiction about how the CARES Act will affect clients’ retirement savings