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Benefits in the News > By Subject > 401(k) plans Now Viewing Recent Headlines View Excerpts and Recent Headlines Advisers Step In Amid 401(k) Match Cuts [Guidance Overview] Another Question is Answered in the 401(k) Plans Q&A Column 401(k) Has Advantages Even If Employer Cuts Match [Guidance Overview] IRS Proposed Reliance Regulations that Permit Suspension of 401(k) Non-Elective Safe Harbor Contributions New Study Suggests That Employees Value Their Total Benefits Offering More Than Cash Big Surprise: Even the AARP Decides to Suspend Its 401(k) Match for at Least Nine Months Seventh Circuit Comments on Denial of Petition for Rehearing in case of Hecker v. Deere [Guidance Overview] Debtor Can't Deduct 401(k) Loan Repayments Under Bankruptcy Means Test As Necessary Expense [Guidance Overview] 7th Circuit Panel Limits Ruling's 404(c) Effects [Guidance Overview] IRS Allows Struggling Employers to Reduce or Suspend Nonelective Contributions to 401(k) Plans Median Cost for Defined Contribution Plans Now Exceeds Cost for Defined Benefit Plans Company-Sponsored Retirement Plans More Important Than Ever House Committee Approves Bill That Restricts 401(k) Advice to Independent Advisers Legislation Calls for More Transparent Disclosures of 401(k) Fees Consumers Should Take 401(k) Plan Loans Instead of Consumer Loans, Study Contends Safe Harbor 401(k) Contributions Made to an ESOP: More Details Lawmakers Plan Push to Reform 401(k) Plans Pension Reform in the Aftermath of Enron: Congress' Failure to Deliver the Promise of Secure Retirement 401(K) Plan Participants [Guidance Overview] New Rules Allowing Employers to Suspend Nonelective Contributions to Safe Harbor Plans Due to Business Hardship (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Mid-Year Elimination of Safe Harbor Non-Elective Contributions Rethinking 401(k) Plan Design for Challenging Times (PDF) Employers Cutting Back 401(k) Plans, According to Study Worker Preferences for 401(k) Fee Disclosure Highlight of New Study (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Judge Says Motorola Didn't Breach Fiduciary Duties [Guidance Overview] Tougher Financial Regulation Proposals May Hinder 401(k) Plan Sponsors Amendment to Conflicted Advice Bill Regarding Retirement Education (PDF) Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute for the '401(k) Fair Disclosure for Retirement Security Act of 2009' (PDF) DOL Webcast: Investment of 401(k) and Other Retirement Plans in Target Date Type Plans Remarks of Deputy Secretary of Labor at Hearing on 401(k) Investments in Target Date Funds Three Ways to Get Your 401(k) Back on Track Fun, Easy and Automatic: Not a Sure Path to Sufficient Retirement Income (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Second Post-Enron ERISA 'Stock Drop' Trial Victory for Tellabs and Its 401(k) Plan Fiduciaries (PDF) ABC Suggests Improvements to Fee, Advice Bills [Opinion] Statement on Behalf of Profit Sharing / 401k Council of America for Hearing on Investments in Target Date Funds and Similar Investment Options (PDF) SEC-DOLTarget-Date Hearing Witness Lineup Released [Opinion] What's Wrong with the Current 401(k) System - and How It Can Be Salvaged Choosing Between 401(k) and 403(b) Plans Borrowing from 401(k) Plan May Have Positive Effects for Some Participants The U.S. Retirement Market, 2008 (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Loans on 401(k) Plans a Tax Trap [Guidance Overview] 403(b) Plan or 401(k) Plan: How to Decide Stable Value: A Closer Look at This Hybrid Fixed Income Strategy Workers Sticking by 401(k) Plans, Study Shows Law Firm Looks into Securities Lending at Northern Trust 401(k) Many 401(k) Sponsors Suspending Matching Contributions Are Funding Defined Benefit Pension Plans (PDF) Target-Date Funds in the Spotlight: An Overview Update on Participant Behavior Through First Quarter 2009 (PDF) Dropping Your 401(k) Match? Watch Employees Drop the Plan Risk Pooling and the Market Crash: Lessons from Canada's Pension Plan Small-Business Owners Worry about Continuing 401(k) Match The 401(k): Employers Look to Cut Costs, Workers Crave Stability Following Market Crash New Working Paper from Federal Reserve Suggests Borrowing from 401(k) Fund May Not Be So Bad [Opinion] American Benefits Council Proposed Modification of H.R. 1988, The Conflicted Investment Advice Prohibition Act of 2009 (PDF) Key Issues 401(k) Plan Fiduciaries Need to Know (PDF) Target-Date Funds Favored by Hands-Off Investors [Guidance Overview] Safe Harbor 401(k) Chart: Factors to Consider and Key Operational Rules Safe Harbor 401(k) Contributions Made to an ESOP Retirement Plan Trade Association Opposes Mandatory Index Funds in 401(k) Plans Rethinking Conventional Wisdom About 401(k) Loans: Better In Debt to a Plan Than a Credit Card Company [Guidance Overview] Bureau of Labor Statistics Data on Employee Access to 'Other Types of Benefits,' 1979-2008 Important word about authorship: BenefitsLink® (BenefitsLink.com) provides this page for you, containing selected hypertext links to pages on the web that our editors think will be useful or interesting to you. 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