The intellectual case for getting rid of tax-advantaged retirement plans is strong, and the political case is catching up.
Wintrust Retirement Benefits Advisors serves more than 200 retirement plan sponsors.
Employees in defined-contribution plans are uneasy about their ability to retire comfortably, a company survey found.
Prematurely dipping into retirement accounts without penalty is possible, but it should be a last resort, they say.
Small firms with 10 or more workers would be required to auto-enroll employees in a plan.
A good year in the markets also means higher required distributions from retirement accounts.
The Latus Group, founded by a former SWAT team police officer, has a retirement plan bent.
A new emergency pension account allows employees to take plan withdrawals free of taxes and penalties.
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But the average ending balance of $287,769 represents a 5.3% year-over-year increase.
Some helpful tax laws are poised to go away in the near future, he said.
And just as bad, they're allocating 32% of assets to cash, Schroders finds.
Unions and consumer groups argue rule is needed to weed out costly conflicts.
Virginia Foxx wants the DOL to extend the comment period for the proposed rule.
Some 2.3% of workers took a hardship withdrawal last quarter.
An industry coalition claims the department is rushing hearings before everyone has weighed in.
The DOL's new proposal would fail to satisfy the court's previous objections, the former DOL assistant secretary said.
Morningstar says retired workers can now safely withdraw 4% a year, up slightly from a 2022 analysis.
Morningstar's John Rekenthaler considers “sequence opportunity” when people are accumulating assets.