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The Clark Howard Podcast

10.4.19 Cheaper 401k plans for small businesses; Clark Stinks

The Clark Howard Podcast

Clark Howard

Business, Investing, Entrepreneurship

4.65.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Roughly half of us have no access to a retirement plan through work. Most small employers don’t know how to make this happen. If they go to an insurance company or bank, they face extremely high costs and employees pay the price, making the plan essentially a rip-off. So many just give up. A new federal rule just went into effect allowing small employers to team up to create group buying power for lower costs. These can happen through Chambers of Commerce and industry trade groups. We’re about a year away from this taking hold. But don’t wait. There are companies offering 401k plans for small businesses. Betterment has one at a reasonable cost. Employees – if your small-midsize employer does offer a 401k – understand the fees. If it’s a high fee plan, contribute only up to the match,  open your own Roth IRA with a low-cost company and make your contributions automatic. Christa reads listener posts about how Clark has missed the mark in his advice this week. If you have a "Clark Stinks" to share you can leave it here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:06.4

So something is not been oh I should say coming up later is Clark stinks where you may feel that

1:14.6

well I didn't give you the best advice best information or I was just wrong on something.

1:20.2

So we have a place on Clark.com is Clark.com slash Clark stinks where you can post where you feel

1:28.6

I didn't do the job right. And then once a week coming up just later you get to hear some of the

1:36.7

best posts according to producer Christa from this week's Clark stinks. So something that really

1:44.2

has stuck for a long time is that roughly half of us have no access to a retirement plan at work.

1:52.5

And it's not because the employer we work for is cruel or mean or whatever they'd love in most

2:00.1

cases to offer a 401k plan. The reality is most small employers don't know how to do it.

2:08.7

That it is a difficult thing to understand and they don't know where to go. And a lot of times

2:17.8

they'll go to a place like an insurance company or a bank and face extremely high costs for doing

2:28.2

a 401k plan. Those costs born heavily by the employees makes the 401k essentially a rip off

2:39.3

with all the fees that are involved. So a lot of small employers just give up. They don't

2:46.2

do anything about offering one because they just don't know how to do it in a way that wouldn't

2:54.5

hurt everybody. So now there's a brand new federal rule that just went into effect that allows

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