The first objective of company 401(k) retirement plan account participation is to make enough contributions in order to get the “free money” company matching feature each year. The second objective is to grow the value of your company-matching contributions and...
Central banks around the world have used all the tools available to them to keep interest rates near all-times lows. This phenomenon has allowed bond prices to soar to near all-time highs. The bond mutual funds that you own in your company 401(k) retirement plan...
The results of this survey were not shocking to me. I do think that readers of my web site would find these results of interest. Bob Bryan at Business Insider wrote a great article about the lack of individual investor knowledge regarding how interest rate moves...
When I talk to individual Minnesota company 401(k) retirement plan participants, I often find a good understanding of how the stock market is doing. Unfortunately, those same individual investors have no clue about the status of world interest rates. Individual...