Anyone other than a spouse used to get hammered on taxes by inheriting a 401(k): a child, sibling or significant other outside the bounds of marriage.
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For instance, a 1973 study by economist Douglas K. Adie concluded that a ten percent increase in the real, inflate-adjusted minimum wage increased teen unemployment by 3.62 percent.
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He cited a 1994 feasibility study by WS Atkins, a U.K. engineering firm, which concluded that a freeway would only shift bottlenecks around rather than increase the city's traffic carrying capacity.
The theory, which goes back to efforts by Danish engineer A.K. Erlang to predict phone traffic in 1909, gets pretty abstruse.
But then, most companies found that they could save money and shift the risk to the employees by a 401(k) plan.
Our universities claim to train teachers, but in reality many people find themselves overwhelmed by reality once inside a K-12 classroom.
For employers, managing the costs of the plan and ensuring the plan has solid, diversified fund options is an obligation every employer takes on by offering a 401(k).
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Racing ahead of rivals like Temenos of Switzerland and Misys of the U.K., Flexcube snagged the top spot in the annual sales ranking by International Banking Systems, a U.K.-based industry publication, three years ago and has hung on there.
The strength of the DIY market belies predictions that as the baby boomers inched toward a retirement funded largely by their 401(k)-plan savings, most of them would seek a one-on-one relationship with a financial adviser to manage their nest eggs.
For instance, when you worked at the Gap, you increased sales in the U.K. by 35% over a period of two years, from 2002 to 2004.
Financial scholars David Chambers and Elroy Dimson have calculated that he outperformed the U.K. stock market by a risk-adjusted eight percentage points a year over that period.
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Today he is launching the Web Index, an annual survey that measures which 61 countries have been impacted the most and least by the Web, a.k.a. that thing he created more than 20 years ago.
The following is the complete text of a statement by Robert K. Steel, Under Secretary for Domestic Finance, to the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, as released by the Treasury Department on Thursday, April 3.
In America, for instance, employees are increasingly making it a hobby to switch between 401(k) mutual funds over the Internet or by using a toll-free telephone number.
Likewise, 46% of the 401(k) plans administered by fund giant Vanguard Group offered a Roth option by the end of 2011, and only 9% of participants who had access to a Roth 401(k) were using it.
Ford, Nissan, Honda and Toyota responded by turning the U.K. into a major export base.
That's because every 8-K filing is usually accompanied by a press release and, sometimes, a conference call.
The suit also seeks to shut down sales of Huawei routers by Spot Distribution , a U.K. company.
The announcement also appeared to embrace a recommendation by U.K. financial institutions for reduced information-gathering requirements on investment accounts that aren't marketed to U.S. investors.
Video shot by the robotic submarines (a.k.a. remote operated vehicles or ROVs) seems to indicate that oil is leaking from three spots in a pipe that is laying on the seafloor.
It seems that Britain's Work and Pensions minister, David Blunkett , had broken ministerial rules while out of office by becoming director of a U.K. company without consulting a special independent committee.
But a device introduced in 2001 by a division of U.K.-based health care giant Amersham Plc. (nyse: AHM - news - people ) uses a dramatically different approach, one that promises to cut years off the drug discovery process.
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States where poverty exceeded 18 percent, the immigrant population exceeded 15 percent and the C-section rate exceeded 33 percent had 77 percent, 33 percent and 21 percent higher risks of maternal mortality, respectively, a 2007 report by Gopal K. Singh of the Health Resources and Services Administration indicated.
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