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'401k ~ Why 401 ~ k ~ Retirement Plans Really Don ~ t Work ~ retirement plan'




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For example, do they provide: 1) free wealth from employers, 2) lower taxable income, 3) retirem.....
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The advantage information about the Internet is the notice we can get our cursors on instantly; the bad piece of news is the notice we can get our heads right and left instantly, but without any way of gauging accuracy, relevance, or completeness. This is particularly evident in the financial-investment-retirement world, where thousands of websites tell us how to do things and why, and why things work the way they do and how.

Few gurus explain why and how certain concepts and plans of action just may not work the way they are supposed to. You don't need to read very far before the fingernail-screeching 401(k) chalkboard becomes deafening.

For example, do they provide: 1) free wealth from employers, 2) lower taxable income, 3) retrocession without any worries about money, or are they, 4) one of the most popular retirement plans.

The inadequacies I'm talking about may seem nit-picky at first blush, but the misconceptions and invalid expectations they nurture in inexperienced investors are mind blowing.

Employers are providing a benefit in the form of a defined contribution savings plan, a self-directed investment program that has little in common with defined benefit avoidance and pension plans. It's not free funds at all. It's a clever, goal-directed, business expense that is both touchy-feely perceptible to you and far at a disadvantage priceless for your boss. It's a advantage deal, but not a retirement plan.

Although it is true that you do not pay taxes on your contributions during your earning years, you will undoubtedly pay through both nostrils when you retire. If your karma is off, you may find yourself trying to retire at a time when the stock market is not in a phalanx mood and your shrinking mutual funds just don't seem as warrantee as you speculation they were a few months earlier. Typically, the 65-year-old retiree can expect quadrate or five major mutual fund shrinkages during retirement.

Similarly, more fortunate retirees (those who get the 'gelt' during a rally) generally fail to lock in a guaranteed stream of income, and find themselves in the same cyclical conundrum as their at the bottom market-timely brethren. The assets worries string together well behind retirement; the taxes become much larger than anyone ever anticipates; the misconception that the 401(k) is a retirement plan continues. In fact, a recent president once proposed to change the only true withdrawal program that most of us belong to into a similar non-retirement program.

No, this isn't just semantics. The differences betwixt flight programs and savings programs are very real, extremely fundamental, and politically incomprehensible to legislators--- so a certain number as it's not their money.

Retirement programs are income machines designed to base people, not to make them feel wealthy, investment savvy, or soon tax-free. Pension plans perform fixed amounts of monthly income that don't change appreciably when dot-coms, veritable estate, CDOs, or index funds (they're next) self-destruct. You just can't buy dinner or medications with currency futures, gold bars, or appreciated acreage.

The investments contained in a pension design are designed to make income, and are managed by trustees who are experienced in constructing safe, conservative, of various kinds programs that are just as boring as they can as one be. Most pension design benefits are calculated as a percentage of the amount earned during the time employed.

The Social Security retirement/welfare proposal is a tontinesque Ponzi scheme based on the government's ability to continually abuse taxpayers. There are no investments at all, and no trustees... just IOUs.

Defined benefit pension programs are rapidly becoming extinct--- corporate America can no longer afford them, along with 50% of total Social Security contributions, employee robustness care, and CEOs who collect $50 million per year from their unwary shareholders. But those that have survived (notably, labor union plans, avoidance annuity contracts, and the Congressional Pension System) fabricate monthly income checks without any problems whatsoever.

And here we speculation our congressional leaders were incompetent--- not when it comes to their own benefit package + COLAs.

Still, the 401(k) project deserves to be every bit as popular as it has become. It, and the vast array of complicated IRAs, could help save Social Security, improve the economy, and propitiate jobs--- all those weal things that neither of the presidential candidates have a randomness of achieving. Just two homespun strokes of an Oval Office ballpoint get it done: 1) Eliminate all taxes of any kind, at any jurisdictional level, on any form of investment and/or recoil income. 2) Replace the failing Social Security system with a private pension system, funded by taxpayers only and managed by the real insurance industry infrastructure.

How do we make the 401(k) proposition make provision more avoidance security? That's not so irksome either. Simply dictate that all plans necessitate participants to involve at least 60% of their assets in individual (plain vanilla) income securities that can be withdrawn 'in kind' at retirement.

Until that happens, we just have to educate people better and make the appropriate distinctions amongst an as-speculative-as-you-care-to-make-it savings and investment proposition and a pretty-much-guaranteed recoil or pension plan. Existing 401(k) participants should contribute enough to get the matching contribution, and start a personal tax-free income account with whatever disposable income is left.

Now about that Congressional Pension Plan--- we've only our apathetic selves to blame.

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How do we make the 401(k) resolution lay in a stock more flight security? That's not so troublesome either....."



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Steve Selengut www.sancoservices.com'>Sanco Services www.kiawahgolfinvestmentseminars.com'>Kiawa Golf Investment Seminars Author: 'The Brainwashing of the American Investor: The Book that Wall Street Does Not Want YOU to Read' and 'A Millionaire's Secret Investment Strategy'.





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