I have written several posts on stable value funds over the last year or two. With the financial crisis easing, the topic needs revisiting.It is worth reviewing some of the issues around stable value funds a year ago and contrasting the situation with …
There is good news and bad news. The good news is that State Street (STT) decided to provide support to their stable value funds in the face of potential losses. The bad news is that they had to.Here is what they said in their 8-K and referred to in th…
As markets began to tumble early last year I wrote a couple of posts advocating that workers put a sizable percentage of 401k investments into stable value funds.This generated some debate as stable value funds are somewhat murky investments. It is dif…
In looking at the logs for this blog I see that many people are visiting TradeRadar because they are searching on the term “401k”.I have written a few posts (see the list at the end of this post) describing my approach to dealing with your 401k during …
Worried about your 401K? Should you be?I have written two previous posts focused on being conservative in your 401K during these turbulent days in the stock market (read Part 1 or Part 2). The basic concept was that you should lighten up on stocks and …