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Comment by kristianp

1 day ago

Unless you work for Enron, where the retirement fund went down with the company.

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jpadkins  20 hours ago

401k's are independent of the company. The account is in your name, not the companies.

  • kristianp  17 hours ago

    My bad, I think the problem with the Enron 401k was that employees were encouraged to buy more Enron stock in them: https://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=87516&page=1

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