http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/04/60-minutes-the-401k-fallout/ Macro Perspective on the Capital Markets, Economy, Geopolitics, Technology, and Digital Media Mon, 22 Mar 2010 04:34:32 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/04/60-minutes-the-401k-fallout/comment-page-1/#comment-165922 tradeking13 Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:54:54 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=24818#comment-165922 If you are in your 50's you should be mostly in fixed income. I thought this was common knowledge. If you are in your 50’s you should be mostly in fixed income. I thought this was common knowledge.

]]> http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/04/60-minutes-the-401k-fallout/comment-page-1/#comment-165783 buermann Tue, 28 Apr 2009 04:04:28 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=24818#comment-165783 It would be nice if they attempted to put some numbers to the anecdotes, they don't give the reader any idea of how many people are being (nevermind will be) forced to put off retirement because of poor allocation. Must be some rough estimates somewhere they could throw out. It would be nice if they attempted to put some numbers to the anecdotes, they don’t give the reader any idea of how many people are being (nevermind will be) forced to put off retirement because of poor allocation. Must be some rough estimates somewhere they could throw out.

]]> http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/04/60-minutes-the-401k-fallout/comment-page-1/#comment-165718 deanscamaro Tue, 28 Apr 2009 01:00:59 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=24818#comment-165718 Why is this such a great surprise??? Anybody who has any thoughts of retirement within the near future should know these accounts are toast. We have a bunch of self-indulgent, self-centered financial jerks heading anything that anyone could try and make money for their retirement through and there is should be no question of the result of all this stupidity. We have been had by the totality of the efforts of ALL financial advisors. Why is this such a great surprise??? Anybody who has any thoughts of retirement within the near future should know these accounts are toast. We have a bunch of self-indulgent, self-centered financial jerks heading anything that anyone could try and make money for their retirement through and there is should be no question of the result of all this stupidity. We have been had by the totality of the efforts of ALL financial advisors.

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