Robert Powell's Retirement Portfolio: Your company may want to hold on to your 401(k) assets when you retire — and you may want to let them

Employers who sponsor 401(k) plans have long encouraged workers to take their money out of the plan when they retire or leave the company.

“The trend was always to get the money out of the plan,” said Bonnie Treichel, the chief solutions officer at Endeavor Retirement, a retirement-plan consulting firm. 

But a shift from that historical trend…