401k matches

WalletPop's Lan Nguyen chats with Mike Alfred, co-founder and CEO of BrightScope.com, an Internet-based 401(k) analytics firm, about how to make the right 401K choices. Since its launch in January, the California company has examined and rated 4,000 plans from some of America's largest employers,...

Suspending the 401K employee match is the latest fashionable way for companies to pick the pockets of their employees. Everyone's doing it -- even the freakin' AARP, the people who should hold retirement savings programs sacred. Many shortchanged employees are keeping an eye on the executive...