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...plan--named for a section of the Internal Revenue Code--came about thanks to a 1978 congressional provision intended to offer taxpayers breaks on deferred income. In 1980, while trying to streamline a client's profit-sharing plan, benefits consultant Ted Benna realized that the code could be used to create an easy, tax-friendly vehicle for employees to save for retirement. The client passed, but the idea took off: there are now more than 65 million 401(k) accounts, which allow participants to invest in stocks and bonds, often with matching funds from employers--all at a lower cost...
...market rout that ate 18% of the Dow, Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson was forced to import a plan he once considered practically un-American. Paralleling a program authored by U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown, it called for the U.S. government to take partial ownership of nine leading banks and offer to buy pieces of hundreds of others. On Oct. 13, the nine bank bosses, assembled in the Treasury's imposing boardroom, were each handed a piece of paper with the terms: $25 billion of preferred shares each from Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo and Bank of America. In return...
...what finally forced Paulson's hand? Pressure mounted from abroad when Ireland, the U.K., France and Germany moved almost sequentially to insure deposits and recapitalize banks--nearly $3 trillion worth. For the Treasury to fail to match that offer would have risked a capital flight by institutional depositors that could have started emptying U.S. banks...
...offer basic medical coverage, including, in some cases, dental, vision and prescription-drug benefits. A few even throw in fancier perks like teeth-whitening or gym-membership discounts. So what's the catch? Not surprisingly, there's some fine print...
...their third-quarter brokerage statements, the news is grim. "Our call volumes are up 100%. We are just on fire here," says Gary Bhojwani, CEO of Allianz Life Insurance in Minneapolis, which sells annuities--insurance products that trade off risk and the potentially higher returns that stocks or bonds offer in exchange for a guaranteed payback. (Most annuities are guaranteed by state insurance regulators.) Investors who wouldn't know an annuity from a pineapple are asking one question: Is my money safe...