Employees more proactive with finances, but confidence still wanes.

A recent report, available at www.calcpa.org/Proactive, found that:

* Employees are becoming more proactive about their finances in general, and retirement planning in particular. Adjusted for seasonal tax questions, 73 percent of employee financial questions were proactive. This is an improvement from the first financial quarter of 2011 when 67 percent of employee financial questions were proactive in nature.

* Employees continue to report dangerously low levels of retirement preparedness. Only 14 percent of employees reported being confident they...