Blogs & Newsletters
01/15/09

Three companies do “the right thing”

It isn’t every day you that hear a company say that providing a 401(k) match is the “right thing to do” for its employees. Nope, you don’t hear it that often – especially during an economic downturn that many have compared to the Great Depression. So, when I heard that Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group reinstated […]

Blogs & Newsletters
12/10/08

401(k) regrets

Some teachers in West Virginia have learned the hard way that traditional pensions end up paying better benefits than 401(k)-type plans. The Associated Press reports that, in light of current stock market volatility, some of the teachers who passed up an opportunity to switch to the state’s defined benefit pension want to revisit their decision. […]