Initiative on Financial Security Excerpt: “Judy A. Miller, Director of Retirement Policy at ASPPA “We know the key to promoting retirement security is expanding access to workplace savings, and Congress could take some modest steps that would make major strides in accomplishing that.”
Obama’s 2015 Budget Is a House of Cards
The following is a statement from Brian H. Graff, Executive Director/CEO of the American Society of Pension Professionals & Actuaries (ASPPA) in response to the proposed fiscal year 2015 budget President Barack Obama released today: “Unfortunately, this year’s budget proposal includes the same wrong-headed attacks on employer-sponsored retirement plans as last year. The double tax… Continue reading
Fox Business, Money with Melissa Francis (live): Saving for retirement in the worst-case scenarios
Saving for retirement in the worst-case scenarios ASPPA’s CEO, Brian Graff appeared on FBN’s Money with Melissa Francis to talk about various scenarios in which individual retirement accounts could be injured if Chairman Camp’s tax reform proposal was passed into law.
Fiscal Times: 6 Reasons myRAs Won’t Ease the Retirement Crisis
6 Reasons myRAs Won’t Ease the Retirement Crisis Excerpt: “…require someone whose company doesn’t have any retirement plan to go to their employer and say she wants to do this, and then the employer would have to say ‘OK’ and put it in place,” says Brian Graff, executive director and chief executive officer of the… Continue reading
San Francisco Chronicle: MyRA for workers whose employers don’t offer retirement plan
MyRA for workers whose employers don’t offer retirement plan Almost 72 percent of workers earning $30,000 to $50,000 who are offered a workplace retirement plan participate, whereas only 5 percent without a workplace plan open an IRA, according to a study cited by the American Society of Pension Professionals & Actuaries. {break} Brian Graff, chief… Continue reading
Salon.com: Obama falls short, We’ll need much more to fix our catastrophic inequality
Obama falls short: We’ll need much more to fix our catastrophic inequality Excerpt: “Brian Graff, CEO of American Society of Pension Professionals & Actuaries, who has spoken with Treasury about the president’s retirement plan, shared his view with Politico: “It’s not what I would describe as an earth-shattering move.” You can say that again.”
Bloomberg Businessweek: Savings Plans for Low-Income Workers Ready by Year-End, Lew Says
Savings Plans for Low-Income Workers Ready by Year-End, Lew Says Excerpt: “This isn’t earth-shattering stuff,” said Brian Graff, chief executive officer of the American Society of Pension Professionals & Actuaries. “But it is a step in the right direction to get more people saving for retirement, which I would think is a bipartisan issue.” “I… Continue reading
The Wall Street Journal: For retirement, are R-Bonds right for you?
For retirement, are R-Bonds right for you? MarketWatch Excerpt: “And Judy Miller, the executive director of American Society of Pension Professionals and Actuaries (ASPPA), a national organization for career retirement-plan professionals based in Washington, D.C., said the following: “I don’t see this expanding the number of people who have retirement savings, but I do see… Continue reading
The Wall Street Journal: Default would cost savers $2 trillion
WSJ’s MarketWatch reporter Diana Blass reports on the impacts to America’s retirement accounts if the US defaults on its debt obligations. Read more below. Report: Default would cost savers $2 trillion “Nobody knows exactly what will happen if Congress and the Obama administration fail to reach an agreement to raise the debt ceiling by the… Continue reading