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06.04.2009 10:51 am

Treasury official favors government “match” for savings

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

For folks fortunate to have an employer match in their 401k plan, failing to contribute would be like passing up free money. That’s a powerful incentive to save. Now, some officials in Washington want more people to have that incentive…

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06.03.2009 1:40 pm

To mandate or not? That’s a burning retirement question

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

One of the hot new solutions to the retirement-savings problem is the Automatic IRA. (Sometimes it’s also called the Universal IRA, but see yesterday’s post to learn the problems with that name.) There’s one group that doesn’t like it, though:…

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06.02.2009 11:13 pm

Cutting through retirement myths and misinformation

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Dallas Salisbury, president of the Employee Benefit Research Institute, has long been a go-to numbers guy for anyone writing about retirement issues. On Tuesday, he urged reporters to use data to knock down myths and cut through political rhetoric.

One of…

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