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How to be a Demographic Realist
There's an interesting article in strategy+business called "How to be a Demographic Realist" that presents some false assumptions about retirement -- something 21 percent of the global population will need to think about by 2100, as opposed to 7 percent now. It's probably not news to you that the burgeoning senior population faces some challenges...
Tags: Finance, Software, Enterprise Software, Healthcare, Benefits, Financial Accounting, Investment, Vertical Industries, Financing, Retirement, Human Resources, Lori Deschene
Blog posts 2007-09-26
401K Planner
This template forecasts the growth in value of your 401K plan and to project the monthly income you will receive from the plan upon retirement. It also compares the wealth accumulation in the 401K plan in contrast to the growth of a taxable savings plan. The forecasted monthly income during...
Tags: 401(k) Plan, Retirement, Benefits, Human Resources, Operational Accounting, Investment, Retirement Plans, 401(k), Income, Finance
Tools & templates 2007-09-01
The Role of 401(k) Accumulations in Providing Future Retirement Income
Defined contribution DC plans are increasingly being offered as the primary employer-sponsored pension, so it is of interest to ask whether DC accumulations are likely to yield sufficient income in retirement. This paper uses the EBRI/ICI 401k Accumulation Projection Model to explore alternative future scenarios for retirees having had 401k...
Tags: Human Resources, Benefits, Finance, Investment, Retirement Plans, 401(k), Income, 401(k) Plan, Retirement
White papers 2005-11-11
Retirement Keeps Him Busy
Since its founding in 1918, New York City - based nonprofit financial services company TIAA-CREF has expanded its business beyond pensions to include variable annuities, insurance, financial advice, trust services and college tuition financing. By 2002, TIAA-CREF had expanded so much that high costs were beginning to impair its ability...
Tags: Retirement, International Data Group, Financial Accounting, Financial Planning, Investment, Finance
White papers 2005-10-15
Preparing to Tap Your Income Stream
While most people put a significant amount of time, effort and money into creating and nurturing a portfolio that will make retirement possible, few give much thought to how they will tap into their investments once retirement arrives. It's an issue worth considering, because just when one is ready to...
Tags: Retirement, Investopedia, Income, Operational Accounting, Investment, Finance
White papers 2005-10-10
Talking About Retirement Planning More Critical Than Ever
Stock market downturns, medical cost increases, and reductions in employer-provided retirement benefits will challenge Americans retiring in the next few decades. The paper shows certain trends such as Between 1999 and 2002, equity shares declined by more than 42% ($7 trillion).According to the 2004 Employee Benefits Research Institute study, while...
Tags: Aon Consulting, Retirement, Equity, Investment, Financial Services, Finance
White papers 2004-10-01
The New Reality of Retirement Income Adequacy: Preparing Your Employees
The retirement picture could look markedly different for retirees in the future compared to those of today. The reasons include: the rising costs of retiree medical care, the erosion of the traditional pension plans, underutilization of 401k plans and more. These realities will force employees to change their expectations and...
Tags: Hewitt Associates LLC, Retirement, Income, 401(k), Retirement Plans, Benefits, Investment, Operational Accounting, Human Resources, Finance
White papers 2004-06-30
How Much Money Will You Need For Retirement? More Than You Think
One of the biggest questions before the professionals about to retire is the amount of money needed after retirement. Majority of the people think that early planning for retirement is beneficial. While still on the job, people begin to invest in stocks, bonds, and other investments, thereby, accumulating assets for...
Tags: Asset Management, Finance, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Knowledge@Wharton, Retirement, Investment
White papers 2003-08-27
Utility Evaluation of Risk in Retirement Saving Accounts
This paper develops a stochastic simulation algorithm to evaluate the effect of holding a broadly diversified portfolio of common stocks, or a portfolio of index bonds, on the distribution of 401k account balances at retirement. It compares the alternative distributions of retirement wealth both by showing the empirical distribution of...
Tags: Retirement, National Bureau Of Economic Research, Analysis, 401(k), Retirement Plans, Investment, Social Security, Human Resources, Benefits, Finance, Government
White papers 2003-08-01
Retirement Plans.
HR should help employees start planning for retirement long before their final days on the job.Planning for retirement involves more than redistributing the assets in a 401k plan. To make the most of life after leaving the full-time workforce, experts say, employees should start long before their final days on...
Tags: Society For Human Resource Management, Retirement, 401(k), Retirement Plans, Social Security, Recruitment & Selection, Benefits, Healthcare, Insurance, Asset Management, Workforce Management, Investment, Human Resources, Government, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Operational Planning, Finance
White papers 2003-07-01
Retirement - 5 Things You Should Know About Your 401(k)
How much do you know about your 401k? Probably not a lot. If you're like most people, you choose a contribution level and review your balance when the statement arrives. But that could be dangerous. If you don't understand the policies of your plan, you just might stumble into traps...
Tags: Retirement, 401(k) Plan, 401(k), Retirement Plans, Investment, Human Resources, Benefits, Finance
White papers 2003-01-01
Retirees: Earn Lower Returns
This article is not a pitch for investing in bonds, though they are an essential part of most retirement portfolios. No, this is a pitch for investments of any type that have lower risks. It stresses that there is a big difference between the best way to invest before retirement...
Tags: Investment, Financial Accounting, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Finance, Asset Management, Accumulation, Growth, Retirement
White papers 2003-01-01
Conservatism Rules In Retirement Planning
Over the last few years, the threat of terrorism, war, and economic slowdown has put the financial advisor’s job in jeopardy. However, it is a financial advisor’s duty to prevent the employees from taking early retirement. As a result, many financial advisors are considering refurbishing of retirement planning strategies for...
Tags: Retirement, Finance, Investment, Financial Accounting, Financial Advisor, Financial
White papers 2003-01-01
How About Some Retirement Planning ABC's?
Retirement planning is essential to make the post-retirement period comfortable and hassle-free. People should have a thorough understanding of the investments involved in retirement planning. Their nuances play a major part in charting out the retired life. The paper examines basic principles of retirement planning.
Tags: Retirement, Investment, Finance
White papers 2003-01-01
How To Be A Retirement Planning Hero
The life after retirement offers plentiful opportunities to grow and contribute constructively towards society. The need is to plan carefully for the post-retirement era. The ups and downs of the stock markets play a major role in retirement planning. If the stock market shows upwardly trends, the entrepreneurs sell their...
Tags: Retirement, Stock, Stock Market, Investment, Finance
White papers 2002-11-01
Scrambled Nest Eggs: Deferred-Compensation Legislation and Likely Rule Changes in Stock Option Accounting Could Shake Up Executive Retirement Plans
Regardless of what regulators or members of Congress do, senior executives typically face a perpetual retirement planning burden in deciding how to deal with their huge holdings of company stock. Often, there's little chance of diversification until after retirement because of company restrictions on exercising options and selling stock. What's...
Tags: Stock Option, Retirement, CFO Publishing Corp., Stock, Investment, Finance
White papers 2002-10-08
Future Looks Bright For Retirement Plans
Life after retirement can be bright and prosperous if meticulous retirement planning is done beforehand. In recent years, many retirement saving plans have been introduced which cater to the needs of different class of individuals. These plans include the 401k plans and the Individual Retirement Account IRA. For workers in...
Tags: Retirement, 401(k), Retirement Plans, Investment, Human Resources, Benefits, Finance
White papers 2001-08-01
Retirement Investing: A New Approach
This paper proposes a new approach to investing for retirement that takes advantage of recent market innovations and advances in finance theory to improve the risk/reward opportunities available to individual investors before and after retirement. The approach introduces three new elements: · It uses inflation-protected bonds to hedge a...
Tags: Retirement, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance
White papers 2001-03-08
Taking the Risk Out of Retirement
In much of the world, retiring is riskier than it's been since the modern welfare state began to emerge, in the late 19th century. But help may be on the way in the form of the intense competition emerging among banks, insurance companies, mutual funds, and traditional brokerage houses. As...
Tags: Retirement, McKinsey & Co., Mutual Funds, Retirement Plans, Insurance, Financial Planning, Financial Services, Investment, Human Resources, Benefits, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance
White papers

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Canadian Labour Congress/Bailout Fallout: Canadian Working Families Want Answers on Retirement Losses
Canadian working families have lost more than eighty billion dollars ($80,000,000,000) in retirement savings and they want the federal government to cover their losses. The federal government has a legal obligation to monitor and protect the integrity of Canadians' pensions and retirement saving plans and working families want to know...
Articles 2008-10-01
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