Managing Your 401K

With stocks falling to all-time lows managing your 401K may sense pointless. However, your 401K is your retirement plan and should be managed with care. Standard “401K Managing Rules” may not be for everyone, but it is a starting point. Below is a list of recommendations to managing your 401K take will reduce your risk of loss, and grow your retirement plan.

Managing Your 401K

1. Managing Your 401K Tip – Don’t work off of fear – Educate yourself on how a 401k works and how it can help your plan for retirement
2. Managing Your 401K Tip – Determine how much you can comfortable contributed to your 401K. When possible, try to contributed at least as much to get a full match from your employer
3. Managing Your 401K Tip – When determining how much of your contribution should be placed on stocks — use the age rule. The “age rule” is very simple. If you are investing in stocks or other long term investments subtract your age from 100. For example — if you are 45, subtract 45 from 100. That’s 55. Now, use that number as the percentage of how much you should invest. Therefore, if I was 45 I would invest 55% into the stock market or other long term investments.
4. Managing Your 401K Tip – Nervous investors. If you are truly scared about investing it’s best to take it slow. Invest what you feel comfortable with.
5. Managing Your 401K Tip – Do ever invest in the company’s stocks were you work. That is very risky and doesn’t do much in terms of diversifying.

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