Bankruptcy cases increased approximately 35% for the 12-month period ending June 30, 2009 , according to statistics released by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. The number of cases w...
There a lot of business myths out there. One of the most potentially dangerous is that there is a "7-Year Rule" and a "6-Year Rule" respectively for maintaining business and ERISA records. Both m...
https://www.retirementplanblog.com/401k-plans/business-and-erisa-record-retention-myths/
It’s the age-old story: worker classification, or rather misclassification. I wrote about it this past February, Independent Contractor or Employee? Employee Classification Still A High Priorit...
https://www.retirementplanblog.com/401k-plans/you-say-independent-contractor-they-say-employee/
Over at my other blog home, Slate’s Bizbox Blog today, I wrote about Staying Up-To-Date on Your Retirement Plan. Not up-to-date in terms of your plan document as I’m doing in our EGTRRA Resta...
https://www.retirementplanblog.com/401k-plans/timely-matters/
Remember the classic “Greed is good” speech by Gordon Gekko as played by Michael Douglas in the 1987 Oliver Stone classic, Wall Street. Here’s Douglas in his 1988 Academy Award winning rol...
https://www.retirementplanblog.com/401k-plans/the-psychology-behind-todays-economy/
If you’re one of the estimated 6 million people on Twitter as I am, you’re familiar with the question in the headline. If you’re not quite sure about exactly what Twitter is, then take a lo...
https://www.retirementplanblog.com/audiovisuals/what-are-you-doing-in-the-work-place/
The album cover pictured above is of The Times They Are a-Changin’, singer-songwriter Bob Dylan’s third studio album, released in January 1964. The title track is one of Dylan’s most famo...
In whatever what we’re in now – recession, economic downturn, financial crisis. So the answer to the "how we doing" question is not uniform across the board. The sectors I see are our busine...
https://www.retirementplanblog.com/posts-on-slate/so-how-we-doing/
Over at Slate’s BizBox blog, a special promotion by Open from American Express, I posted an article about how entrepreneurs can succeed in this economy. Bhaskar Chakravorti, a senior lecturer o...
https://www.retirementplanblog.com/posts-on-slate/how-entrepreneurs-can-succeed-in-this-economy/
Over at Slate’s BizBox blog, a special promotion by Open from American Express, I posted an article about the impact of the stimulus package affects employee benefits, specifically COBRA and Co...