It's likely that most employees appreciate how substantial their non-wage compensation is; nor do they realize how much health care costs, the biggest part of their non-wage compensation, have risen.
Let's consider how inequality affects the funding of our collective retirements in the United States of America. For example, Fortune 500 CEOs have $3.2 billion in special tax-deferred compensation accounts that are exempt from the annual contribution limits imposed on ordinary 401(k)s.
The California State Teachers Retirement System (CalSTRS), the nations second-largest pension fund, is considering an aggressive move--here are 10 questions people might ask the pension fund manager as to why this is needed.
In 2011, the Securities and Exchange Commission published a study, mandated by the Dodd-Frank Act, which concluded that all financial advisers and stock brokers should be placed under a uniform fiduciary standard.