Self-employed individuals are the latest group to be targeted by several asset management companies, which are providing them with individual 401(k)s, or solo 401(k)s, The Wall Street Journal reports.
These accounts let owners put away as much as $41,000 for retirement this year. Several companies, such as
Oppenheimer, for instance, will add about 600 solo 401(k)s a month and projects a 50% surge in assets next year. Fidelity has seen a two-fold increase in solo 401(k) accounts in the last year, with assets reaching $750 million in mid-December.
By the end of this year, solo 401(k)s are expected to have about $2.8 billion in assets, up from roughly $1.2 billion at the end of 2003, according to
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