But they tend to approach individuals when the company has already traced lost assets, rather than individuals going to them asking for help.

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Billions in plan assets were lost.

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After the highly publicized collapse of Enron in 2001, many of their employees lost more than half of their retirement assets when the company declared bankruptcy and then to make matters worse, they also lost their jobs.

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