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Ary Rosenbaum - The Rosenbaum Law Firm P.C.

Overpaying for Underperformance: A Fiduciary Breakdown in Plain Sight

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A massive new study by Abernathy-Daley covering nearly 58,000 corporate 401(k) plans delivered a simple—but startling—message: virtually every plan suffers from overpriced, underperforming funds. In fact, 99% of plans have at...more

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Does ERISA Work?

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On Labor Day, September 2, 1974, Gerald Ford signed the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (“ERISA”) into law. ERISA governs the employee benefit plans (i.e., retirement and welfare plans) of most private employers in...more

Warner Norcross + Judd

[Webinar] Employee Benefits SECURE Act 2.0 Series - Part 2: Distribution Rule Revisions - April 12th, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm ET

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Warner’s Employee Benefits Practice Group is pleased to present a webinar series on significant new retirement plan legislation, the SECURE Act 2.0. While we expect implementing the new law to take several years, some...more

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[Webinar] Employee Benefits SECURE Act 2.0 Series - Part 1: Changes to Retirement Plan Eligibility and Contributions - March 28th,...

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Warner’s Employee Benefits Practice Group is pleased to present a webinar series on significant new retirement plan legislation, the SECURE Act 2.0. While we expect implementing the new law to take several years, some...more

Groom Law Group, Chartered

Court Extends Anticutback Protection to Post-Normal Retirement Age Pension Distributions

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A recent district court decision improperly (in our view) restricts the ability of plan sponsors to modify participant distribution elections after normal retirement age. We describe the decision, and offer some...more

Burr & Forman

The Countdown Begins for Lifetime Income Disclosures

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The SECURE Act of 2019 made three statutory changes to ERISA regarding lifetime income benefit payments from defined contribution plans (e.g., 401(k), 403(b), profit sharing, and money purchase pension plans). This blog will...more

Groom Law Group, Chartered

[Webinar] Lifetime Income Illustrations – DOL Gives 401(k) Plan Participants a View of the Future. How Will They React? - August...

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On Tuesday, August 18, 2020, the DOL published an interim final regulation... detailing how plan fiduciaries can satisfy the SECURE Act’s requirement that individual account plans add a “lifetime income disclosure” to at...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

PBGC Issues Q&As Related to the Pandemic and the CARES Act

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Seyfarth Synopsis: With the background of the COVID-19 pandemic, the PBGC published unofficial guidance for plan sponsors of single-employer plans on certain reportable events, PBGC premium payments and plan termination...more

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PBGC Announces COVID-19 Extensions for Premium Payments and Other Filing Deadlines

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On April 10, 2020, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (the “PBGC”) announced that deadlines for upcoming premium payments and certain other required filings due from April 1, 2020 through July 14, 2020 will be extended...more

Groom Law Group, Chartered

PBGC’s Regulatory Spring Cleaning: Numerous Changes, Updates, and Clarifications to PBGC Reporting, Termination, and Premium Rules

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On February 4, 2020, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (“PBGC”) issued final regulations (the “Final Rule”) covering reportable events, annual reporting under ERISA section 4010, plan termination filings, and PBGC...more

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Court Challenges to DB Plan Actuarial Assumptions – One Year Later

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Eleven cases have been filed against defined benefit pension plan sponsors and certain fiduciaries alleging that the plan’s assumptions—called “actuarial equivalence factors” or “actuarial equivalence assumptions”— for...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

New Retirement Plan Legislation Enacted Into Law

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On December 20, 2019, federal legislation approving spending limits for the 2020 fiscal year was signed into law. Included in the legislation is the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 2019 (the...more

K&L Gates LLP

An Overview of Legal, Regulatory and Plan Design Considerations for States

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Americans are facing a retirement crisis. The foundation for building a secure retirement — Social Security, employer-provided pensions, and personal savings — has been weakened because most private sector companies no longer...more

King & Spalding

Five New IRS Private Letter Rulings Confirm IRS’s Position Allowing Retiree Cashouts

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We reported in 2012 on two private letter rulings (“PLRs”) issued by the IRS (PLR 201228045 and PLR 201228051) blessing certain retiree cashout programs. A retiree cashout program is a de-risking strategy used by defined...more

Saul Ewing LLP

The Problem With Retirement Plans

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Over the past 30 years, a dramatic change has taken place in the use of retirement plans to help people save for their later years....more

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