As you probably know, the primary difference between a Roth 401(k) and a Traditional 401(k) is in how the two kinds of employer-based plans are taxed.
With a Roth, you pay taxes up front (i.e., before the money is
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January 26, 2018
Dan Ariely and Jeff Kreisler
According to behavioral economics, many of your ideas about saving, spending, and investing are wrong — and they cost you more than you know.
Economist Dan Ariely explains how our irrational behavior interferes with
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It’s been one year since MoneyGuidePro®, the top-rated financial-planning software, became available to SMI premium members (by arrangement with SMI Advisory Services — an affiliated, but separate, company from the SMI
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Now that the new tax law is in effect, we've updated several aspects of our free Bonus Report titled "IRAs, 401(k)s, and Social Security: A Retirement Planning Primer." The updated report is available in the "Resources"
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For many of us, a workplace retirement plan offers a tremendous opportunity to build wealth. But workplace plans can be confusing. Although most plans fall into one of two broad categories, within those categories there
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Investors have enjoyed a powerful bull market over the past 8½ years. But they also carry the emotional scars of the steep declines of 2000 and 2008. With stock valuations currently stretched to
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We often use this space to document the many cognitive biases that pull people off track with their investments. However, there’s one such bias — or perhaps it’s just blissful ignorance — that seems to be working in some
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What’s an SMI member with a bad 401(k) plan to do? In this case, “bad,” means a plan with limited investment options. SMI’s Personal Portfolio Tracker, available to both Basic and Premium members, was designed with that
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Today’s American workers are being forced to shoulder a much higher level of responsibility regarding their retirement finances than past generations. With Social Security projections showing significant shortfalls
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Personalized financial planning offers tremendous benefits. Understandably, those benefits haven’t come cheap. But thanks to our friends at SMI Advisory Services and an
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