The average 55-year-old may not have enough saved for retirement. Learn how much is typical and discover smart ways to grow your 401(k) fast.

If you're contributing enough to max out your 401(k), it could potentially put you at a disadvantage in some ways. Here's how.

This growing trend suggests a shift in how people use their retirement accounts. Once seen as off-limits until retirement, 401 (k)s are increasingly serving as backup emergency funds.

And nearly one-third of people who leave jobs annually liquidate their 401 (k)s, paying taxes and often penalties rather than keeping the money in a retirement account.

Some of the biggest ERISA issues over the last year included those over 401(k) forfeited contributions and ESG investing, according to Gerald Maatman, co-author of the 2025 ERISA Class Action Review.

What To Know 401 (k)s are employer-sponsored personal pension accounts, into which employees make pretax contributions that are then matched by employers.

A rapidly growing corner of Wall Street — private-equity and private-credit fund managers — wants to be part of John Q. Public’s retirement portfolio.

Why do 401 (k) accounts go unclaimed? It’s hard to fathom how anyone could lose track of $56,000, until you stop to consider the circumstances behind the typical lost 401 (k) account.

Beyond the yet-to-be revealed details of the reported executive order, the PitchBook analysis outlined numerous questions and challenges for any agenda to place private-market investments in 401 (k)s.

President Trump is expected to sign an executive order in the coming days designed to help make private-market investments more available to U.S. retirement plans, according to people familiar ...