http://www.corporation-news.com Business news, stock markets and finance Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:25:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en http://www.corporation-news.com/its-time-to-fix-the-401k http://www.corporation-news.com/its-time-to-fix-the-401k#comments Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:05:10 +0000 corporation-news.com http://money.cnn.com/2009/02/13/retirement/Wang_fix401k.moneymag/index.htm Russian output plummets furtherRussia's industrial output sank... Oil up on ’supply crunch’ warningOil prices rise after... China warns against protectionismChina warns against protectionist...]]> Alicia Munnell is a Harvard-trained economist. She served as an assistant secretary of the Treasury and is regarded as one of America’s foremost experts on 401(k)s. You’d think she’d be terrific at managing her own retirement, but even she has to fess up to some mistakes. “When my son got married, I took some money out of my plan to help,” says Munnell, who heads Boston College’s Center for Retirement Research (CRR). “And I ended up paying a 10% penalty and taxes.”

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