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Benefits in the News > By Subject > Ret plan investments - self-directed Now Viewing Recent Headlines View Excerpts and Recent Headlines Many 401(k) Participants Show High Aversion to Risk [Opinion] Big Investments in Employer Stock Can Mean Big Losses for Retirement Plans DOL FAQs Address Participant Fee Disclosure Rules as Applied to Brokerage Windows, Calculation of Total Annual Operating Expense Ratio Think Twice About Rolling Your 401(k) into an IRA -- Consider Investment Management Fees When You Receive New Disclosure Report Commenters Say Qualified Longevity Annuity Contract Rules Should Allow More Options (PDF) Is It Safe to Own Company's Stock in a 401(k) or Profit Sharing Plan? Retirement Plan Evaluation Evolves to Include Participant Investment Performance 401(k)s Making Lifetime Monthly Payments Might Be Future of Retirement Design IRS Proposals for Encouraging Longevity Annuities Might Not Impress 401(k) Sponsors Young Workers Want Guaranteed Income Option in 401(k) Plans Examining Income Replacement During Retirement in a DC Plan System (PDF) 10 Sources of Income in Retirement Are Variable Annuities a Good Investment? Should You Choose a Lifetime Annuity at Retirement? ERISA Advisory Council to Examine Disability Coverage, Retirement Income and Beneficiary Designations (PDF) Employers� Outreach Methods Fail to Engage Employees in Retirement Savings [Guidance Overview] DOL FAQs Clarify Participant-Level Disclosures, 'Good Faith' Standard for Enforcement Purposes [Opinion] Text of Comments by Committee of Annuity Insurers on Proposed Qualifying Longevity Annuity Contract Regs (PDF) [Opinion] Text of Comments by Investment Company Institute on Proposed Required Minimum Distribution Exception for Longevity Annuity Contracts (PDF) [Opinion] Text of Comments by ASPPA on Proposed Changes to IRS Regs on Purchase of Qualifying Longevity Annuity Contracts Under DC Plans Investment Advisers Often Tell Customers What They Want to Hear, Tout Higher-Fee Products, Finance Professors Conclude [Official Guidance] Text of DOL Field Assistance Bulletin 2012-02: FAQs on Participant-Level Fee Disclosures and Service Provider Fee Disclosures [Official Guidance] Text of IRS Rev. Rul. 2012-13 for Federal Rates; Adjusted Federal Rates; Adjusted Federal Long-Term Rate and the Long-Term Exempt Rate Another Reason for Offering Annuity-Type Distributions From 401(k) Plans: Cognitive Impairment of Older Participants Road Trip: Traversing the Country in a Yellow VW Bus to Advocate 401(k) Reform [Opinion] Text of Comments by Eight Women's Organizations and the Pension Rights Center on Proposed IRS Regs for Lifetime Retirement Income Options (PDF) [Opinion] ERIC Offers Recommendations to Improve Treasury Lifetime Income Guidance Most Self-Directed Plan Participants Avoid Extreme All-Equities or No-Equities Positions [Opinion] Text of Comments by American Benefits Council to IRS on Proposed Regs on Longevity Annuity Contracts (PDF) [Opinion] Text of Comments by American Benefits Council to IRS on Proposed Regs on Modifications to Minimum Present Value Requirements for Partial Annuity Distribution Options under DB Plans (PDF) Value Investing: Investing for Grown Ups? [Opinion] Text of Comments by Insured Retirement Institute on Proposed Regs on Longevity Annuity Contracts (PDF) Benefits and Challenges of Offering Retirement Income Strategies in Your DC Plan Retirement Issues Particular to Women: Patterns of Saving, Spending and Effectiveness of Incentives (PDF) 2012 Investment Company Fact Book (PDF) Average 401(k) Balance 62% Above 2009, Fidelity Says Better Returns for 401(k) Investors: Looking Back at First Quarter 2012 [Opinion] Jack Brennan on Financial Reform and his 30 Years at Vanguard [Opinion] ASPPA Letter to EBSA on Asset Allocation Strategies, Model Portfolios and Need for Transitional Relief Objective-Based Approach to Participant DC Investing Is Needed Reality Check on IRA Investments in Real Estate Target-Date Funds Increasingly Popular Option in Self-Directed Retirement Plans [Opinion] Company Stock Ought Not Be Legal as Defined Contribution Retirement Plan Investment 'Can't We All Just Get Along?' -- Combining DB and DC Retirement Plans to Minimize Longevity Risk (PDF) Real Estate Investments Gaining Popularity as Self-Directed Investment Option [Guidance Overview] Cracks in the Piggy Bank: 401(k)s Are Inadequate for Many Americans Generation Y Facing Retirement As Go-It-Alone Affair Defined Contribution Plan Executives Say Fee Disclosure Rules Won't Help Much Lessons for 457 Investors and Administrators on Stable-Value Funds Working Americans Facing Significant Drop in Income in Retirement District Court Refuses to Dismiss Claim Against Plan Alleging Failure to Execute Participant's Investment Direction Bringing Annuities to 401(k)s: Comments by Mark Iwry New Suits over Do-It-Yourself IRAs: Custodial Accounts vs. Trust Accounts [Guidance Overview] Alternative Investments Options Were No Shield from Fiduciary Liability for Failure to Divest Stock in Plan Sponsor How Important Is Asset Allocation to Financial Security in Retirement? Boomers Flock to 'Longevity Insurance' for Retirement Security Stable Value Funds: Still Popular, Despite Fewer Guarantees [Guidance Overview] Target Date Fund Disclosures: SEC Reopens Comment Period on Proposal Young Investors Using New Tools to Weight Equities More Heavily in Asset Allocation In Target-Date Funds, a Hodgepodge of Styles 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. But BenefitsLink is not the author or publisher of those linked pages (except as expressly indicated). You should contact directly the author of any such linked pages for copyright or other information about their contents. Webmaster: Dave Baker (click)   ·   © 2012 BenefitsLink.com, Inc. 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