Thursday, 19 June 2014

Availing Of The 401K Retirement Plan

By Sherry Gross


If a person would already want to retire because he has been working in a certain company for a very long time, then one thing he can do to still receive benefits would be to sign up for retirement plans. One of the best plans that would be offered would actually be the 401k retirement plan. This is one of the best plans simply because this one can benefit both the employers and the employees

Now if one is not familiar with this type of plan, basically it is the type wherein one would actually put a part of his income into a fund managed by the company. Now the company would manage this fund and would not allow the employee to touch it until he is ready to retire. Now do remember that not all companies have this option.

Now many would be wondering what would happen to the money that they put into the fund. Basically, the company will use that money to invest in the stock market or in bonds that would come from the other stock companies. Now as to what stock the company will invest the money in, the employee will be the one to decide.

Of course the company will give the option of whether the employee would want to invest in high risk, medium risk or low risk stocks or bonds. Now basically, the portion that the employee would contribute to this fund will depend on the employee himself. Also, the amount of money that will be invested will also depend on the employee.

Now as stated above, the worker has to do his homework on how the stock market would actually work. Of course the company will be assisting him if he does have any questions regarding the stock market and how to go about. He will also be receiving a report on how his stocks are doing as well as the graphs and charts that would visually show him what is going on.

Now one of the best things about this type of option are the tax benefits that one will be able to get from this kind of thing. The great thing about this is that whatever goes into the fund and whatever is invested in stocks will not be charged any tax. The only time when the tax would deducted would be when the money would be taken out of the fund.

Now because of the tax privileges, there are actually rules for those who would want to take the money out of the fund. If one would want to take the money out of the fund, he has to be at least fifty nine years old because that is the usual age of retirement. Of course there would be special cases wherein one would have to take the money out earlier but there are corresponding fees to go with that.

Now if one would want to build wealth while he works in a company, this is one of the plans that he should look into. This is a really good way to be able to save money and build income at the same time. Of course this is better for him also because of the tax privileges.




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