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A low-cost mutual fund that's one-size-fits-all? Yes, it can happen. It is possible to pay the SAME fund fees as institutional investors, if you shop around.

A survey by Charles Schwab finds that 45 percent of 23- to 28-year-olds said they wished they knew more about living within a budget before they started working.

As if people needed more of a reason to be down about their 401 s. Scores of employers, looking to cut and save costs wherever possible, are freezing their matching contributions.

Data suggests that many banks binged on home equity loans last year and began tightening standards only in the second half - after housing prices had already staged a dramatic retreat.

Your employer has canceled bagel Mondays, and the lavender hand lotion in the bathroom has disappeared.

After 401 investors lost billions in last year's downturn, the Department of Labor, which regulates retirement plans, is looking into ways to give 401 recipients more access to investment advice.

Most of the companies that stopped matching employee contributions to 401 plans when the economy tanked are planning to start contributing again.

Employers are tweaking 401 plans to save money. Most finance and human resources executives say that their company's 401 plan needs slight modifications or a number of improvements , according to a new survey.

The Charles Schwab Corp., which promised to spell out details of its plan to help advisers move alternative assets from its platform this month, has nearly met its deadline.

Description: We've spent more on bailing out banks in the past year than on aiding the world's poor over the past 10 years.

More workers are turning to their employers for personal financial advice, researchers found.

Most companies that have suspended contributions to employees' 401 plans are expected to reinstate the match when the economy improves, but the match may be significantly different.

Research shows that yogurt brands can do more to educate consumers about probiotics.

In the parlance of real estate, making improvements such as repainting or redoing a bathroom -- anything to improve the aesthetics of a property before trying to sell a place -- is known as staging.

United States Steel Corportation was the world's first company to surpass the market capitalization mark of $1 billion dollars.

Nearly one-quarter, or 23%, of employers have eliminated 401 matches, according to a study by CFO Research Services for Charles Schwab.

The majority of employers think 401 plans are working generally and that subpar performance last year was the fault of the economy, not the basic structure of the system, according to a survey released today.

A quarter of U.S. employers have eliminated matching contributions to employee 401 retirement plans since September to save money amid the economy's downturn, according to research released on Monday.

Illinois politicians are not known as being particularly adept at avoiding the appearance of impropriety.

Good news, relatively speaking, for CEOs who'd like to get their faces on TV: In polling conducted among LinkedIn members for AdweekMedia, relatively few respondents said seeing the CEO in a company's advertising makes the message less credible -- though well under half said it makes the ad more credible.