If you’re considering offering employee benefits, few perks are more desirable to workers than a 401(k) retirement plan. As such, many employers use robust retirement plan options to attract and ...

Farran Powell is the managing editor of investing at Forbes Advisor. She was previously the assistant managing editor of investing at U.S. News & World Report. Her work has appeared in numerous ...

A proposed rule from the Department of Labor would make it easier for company retirement plan sponsors to add alternative-type assets, such as private credit and private equity, to company retirement ...

For many organizations, their employer-sponsored retirement plan is one of their largest financial commitments, yet most leaders view their plan as just another employee benefit box to check. However, ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. For decades, the 401(k) has been the backbone of retirement ...

When a company suspends its 401(k) match, it amounts to a pay cut, some workers say. For countless American workers, the 401(k) company match is simply a fact of life: They contribute regularly to ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday that could expand retirement benefits to as many as 56 million Americans. “Hard-working Americans deserve retirement security in portable ...

If you want to roll over money from your 401(k) into a Roth IRA, there’s good news: any employer matching funds in a 401(k) ...

Essentially, a 401(k) plan is a tax-deferred retirement account offered by your employer. It is similar in nature to a traditional IRA. You put income in without paying taxes on that money, which ...

An order coming from President Donald Trump calls for a new government website where people in the United States can find and compare private-sector retirement savings accounts.

The rule of 55 allows penalty-free 401(k) withdrawals only from your current employer’s plan after separation. Funds in old 401(k) accounts from previous employers remain subject to the 10% early ...