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There's a good chance that if you participate in one your employer will just give you money for doing so. You should start contributing at as early an age as you can. You probably want to put all of the money that you defer into an equity index fund. You may need to read no further than this. We wanted to get all the information we could to you right up front because this stuff is pretty important.