Wal-Mart is famous for squeezing suppliers. But in a telling sign of what's wrong with many 401(k) plans, it took a lawsuit to make it equally exacting with its employees' retirement savings.

Americans increasingly rely on their 401(k) plans for retirement, yet typically understand little about how their plans work, or how they compare with offerings at other companies. Is your 401(k) cheap or expensive? Does it offer good investments or mediocre ones? A generous match or a stingy one?

WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Three mutual fund industry leaders will release new research showing how 401(k) participants are behaving and faring one year after the market calamity of 2008 and outline ways to improve the nation's retirement system at a National Press Club Newsmakers press conference at 10 a.m. on Friday, Jan. 8, in the Broadcast Operations Center, Suite 480 ...

When the stock market hit its all-time high in October 2007, few investors questioned the merits of their 401(k) plan. Two years later, their feelings are different.

Your 401(k) plan is an excellent retirement-savings vehicle – so don’t let it “stall out.’’ How can you help keep your 401(k) moving forward? For starters, make sure you periodically rebalance the investments within your plan.

Now that the year is almost over, you may want to explore some last-minute steps you can take to potentially...

VAIL VALLEY, Colorado - Now that the year is almost over, you may want to explore some last-minute steps you can take to potentially boost your financial fortunes and improve your tax returns for 2010. And one good place to look is your 401(k). Your 401(k) is a great retirement savings vehicle. You typically fund your plan with pretax dollars, so the more you put in, the lower your taxable ...

Fidelity Investments has expanded the investment options on its Advisors 401(k) platform, in an effort to help its advisors boost their share of the advisor-sold market.

The number of employers planning to offer annuities to participants in their 401(k) plans is expected to grow as companies look for ways to provide workers with a steady distribution of benefits during retirement, according to a new survey.

The choices made concerning your 401(k) can have a big impact on your retirement. But at many workplaces, 401(k) plan managers do not have any financial planning experience at all.