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Ary Rosenbaum - The Rosenbaum Law Firm P.C.

A Marriage of Old and New: Transamerica, Nuveen, and TIAA Team Up on Lifetime Income Solution

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In a world where retirement plan innovation often comes with more flash than substance, it’s refreshing to see a strategic alliance that actually addresses a fundamental challenge in defined contribution plans: providing real...more

The Wagner Law Group

Pension Risk Transfers and the Continuing Concern About Buying a Pig in a Poke

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Pension risk transfers (“PRTs”) continue to make the news. And well they should. Last year alone, over $100 billion in liabilities were transferred from defined benefit pension plans to insurance companies. And the trend...more

Bricker Graydon LLP

Pension Risk Transfer Considerations and Recent Litigation - A Case of Imprudent “Passing the Buck” or Sound Risk Management?

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Over the last several years, numerous large pension plan sponsors have transferred billions of dollars in financial risk related to their pension plan benefit obligations to insurance companies through the purchase of group...more

K&L Gates LLP

First Circuit Affirms Coverage for Investment Manager Under Business and Management Indemnity Policy

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The First Circuit Court of Appeals recently upheld a decision establishing coverage for a lawsuit filed by pension funds investors against an investment manager for allegedly mismanaging and squandering the pension funds’...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Action Needed by Certain ERISA Plans – New Disability Claims Procedures Apply Beginning April 2018

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In January 2018, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced that final regulations affecting how some ERISA plans process claims and appeals will apply beginning April 1, 2018. As explained below, the final regulations...more

Franczek P.C.

Employee Benefits Alert - July 2015

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Major Revisions to Qualified Plan Determination Letter Process Announced - Effective January 1, 2017, the staggered five-year determination letter remedial amendment cycles for individually designed plans will be...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

It's Curtains for Some Lump-Sum Window Programs

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On July 9, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released Notice 2015-49 to announce it intends to prohibit retirees who are receiving annuity payments from a defined benefit pension plan from electing a lump sum in lieu of the...more

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