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IMHO: "Reference" Points

The House Committee on Education and Labor recently passed the 401(k) Fair Disclosure for Retirement Security Act (H.R. 3185).
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IMHO: Safety "Net"

Over the past several weeks, I've gotten a lot of calls from reporters across the country looking to understand more about what appears to be a recent uptick...
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IMHO: Marshal Law

When a co-worker forwarded to me an e-mail about Eliot Spitzer's alleged tie with a prostitution ring last week, I thought it was a joke.
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IMHO: Utility "Bill"

While it's been a relatively mild winter here (and it's not over yet), it's been cold enough—and our house old enough—that opening the various utility bills has been...
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IMHO: Spend Thrift?

With lightning speed, the House managed to cobble together an economic stimulus package last week, the Senate will take it up this week, and President Bush seems eager...
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IMHO: Trading Places

Back in 2003, when then-New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer launched his investigation into mutual fund trading practices, two distinct areas were highlighted.
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IMHO: The End in Mind

Having spent three days immersed in PLANSPONSOR's second annual DB Summit, I was struck by just how relatively "easy" participant-directed plans—be they 401(k), 403(b), or 457- are.
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IMHO: Motivationally Speaking

Two years ago, I wrote about the "next level" in defined contribution designs: a growing interest on the part of plan sponsors in focusing on service elements like...
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IMHO: Thank Full

Thanksgiving has been called a "uniquely American" holiday, and while that is perhaps something of an overstatement, it is unquestionably a special holiday, and one on which it...
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IMHO: Theories of Relativity

I was having coffee with a buddy of mine a couple of weeks back, and before long the discussion turned to music; specifically the new Bruce Springsteen CD.
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IMHO: It's About Time

It may have lacked the hoopla of a midnight Harry Potter release, but in retirement industry circles, last week's publication of the Department of Labor's final regulations on...