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A workplace 401 K retirement plans is also called Employee Savings Plan, Profit Sharing Plan or Thrift Plan. It is also called Defined Contribution Plan. For small businesses, SEP or SIMPLE plans are variants of a 401k plan. Compared with a traditional pension plan (defined benefit plan), a 401K savings plan lets employees manage their investment funds in the plan. Participants are responsible for their portfolio returns.
A 401k plan usually consists of a dozen (no less than 3 by law) investment funds. The available investment funds of a plan are obtained based on public filing information and thousands of users' input. If you can not find your plans or you think they need to be updated/corrected, please email us your plans investment options (a list of investment funds. They could be mutual funds (thus preferably their symbols), trusts and Separately Managed Accounts (SMAs)). You can find this information from your Summary Plan Descriptions (SPD) document (in 401K/403B cases) or through your online accounts. Other important information includes the redemption period for each fund. By default, we assume that funds (other than money market funds and ETFs) have a minimum three month (90 days) holding period to avoid redemption charge.
Did not Find a Plan? Email your plan's investment options .
Asset
Allocation Model Portfolios
Each
plan has Strategic
Asset Allocation (SAA) moderate and
Tactical
Asset Allocation (TAA) moderate
model portfolios. The portfolios' holdings are decided by their strategy's allocation and fund selection from the candidate
funds.
Strategic
Asset Allocation (SAA) :
(Free)
based
on main stream Modern Portfolio Theory that
emphasizes diversification and portfolio re-balancing.
Good
for:
Armchair or beginning investors, prefer mainstream and passive role.
Tactical
Asset Allocation (TAA) :
(Premium: basic subscription
)
based
on major diversified asset trends to dynamically adjust risk assets (such
as stocks) and fixed income (bonds) allocations.
Good
for:
Active or experienced investors, risk averse to avoid loss.
Fund minimum holding periods and round trip policy (if there is any) are observed in model portfolios.
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on how the strategies work? See More
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What to do for your investments in a 401k savings plan?
Search for your plan
from MyPlanIQ's comprehensive database with over 100 thousands of 401K retirement plans.
Browse
a plan page for :
Plan
Rating:
see PlanRatingIQ
Investment Choices Rankingnew
Fund
Ranking:
compare funds ranking in each category (asset class) in the plan
Model
Portfolios:
browse and compare SAA and TAA model portfolios historical
performance and holdings
Follow/customize
SAA or TAA model portfolios tailored to
your own personal risk tolerance
Manage
your own 401k account :
your
followed or customized portfolios are updated
daily.
You will
receive regular monthly or quarterly re-balance
emails for these portfolios.
You then
use the re-balance/holdings information to make transactions in your 401k
account.
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to start?
follow Step by Step
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