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a fraction of your salary to a portfolio
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that will be managed to provide you income when you retire.
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The amount you get will be determined by the portfolio
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and not by any arbitrary rule.
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There's nothing like 50% of the last ten years of your income.
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The defined contribution plans got their biggest impetus in 1981.
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So that's what, seven years after ERISA
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with the advent of what was called 401(K) plans.
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401(K) is a paragraph in the Internal Revenue Service Code--
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that's the tax--that's the IRS,
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the agency of the government that taxes everyone.
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Section 401(K) of the IRS Code defined