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Ballard Spahr LLP

Executive Order Seeks to Expand Access to Crypto and Private Investments in Defined-Contribution Plans

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On August 7, 2025, President Trump issued an executive order (the Order) instructing federal agencies to expand access to alternative asset investments for participants in defined-contribution retirement plans such as 401(k)...more

Alston & Bird

Trump Administration Executive Order Aims to Expand 401(k) Access to Private Markets, Alternative Investments

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Our Investment Funds Team breaks down a new Executive Order signed by President Trump intended to expand access for 401(k) plans to invest in private equity, cryptocurrency, and other alternative assets....more

King & Spalding

U.S. Department of Labor Updates: Yes to Crypto and No to ESG?

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On May 28, 2025, the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) provided updated guidance on two employee benefit plan-related investment areas: (1) cryptocurrency and (2) environmental, social, and governance (“ESG”) investing....more

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DOL Rescinds 2022 Guidance Cautioning Against 401(k) Plan Investments in Cryptocurrencies

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On May 28, 2025, the Department of Labor (“DOL”) issued Compliance Assistance Release No. 2025-01 which rescinds the DOL’s prior Compliance Assistance Release No. 2022-1 which had warned 401(k) plan fiduciaries against adding...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Texas Federal Court Allows an ERISA Fiduciary Challenge Against Alleged "ESG Investing" Without Any ESG Funds

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On January 10, 2025, in Spence v. American Airlines, a federal district court in Texas ruled that American Airlines (the company) and the committee overseeing its 401(k) plans (the committee) breached their duty of loyalty...more

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Surprise. Nasdaq 100 survey shows demand for Nasdaq 100 fund

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Nothing surprises me much anymore, neither should the results of the survey that a Nasdaq 100 survey supports the inclusion of Nasdaq 100 index funds....more

Fenwick & West LLP

Judge Finds American Airlines Breached its Fiduciary Duty of Loyalty by Allowing Investment Manager to Prioritize ESG Goals with...

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On January 10, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas found that American Airlines and its employee benefit committee (EBC) breached their fiduciary duty of loyalty under the Employee Retirement...more

The Wagner Law Group

IRS Provides Guidance on Application of SECURE 2.0 Act’s Coverage of Long-Term, Part-Time Employees

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In Notice 2024-73, the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) issued guidance on the application of certain non-discrimination rules to long-term, part-time employees in Internal Revenue Code (“Code”) Section 403(b) plans subject...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

IRS Announces 2025 Retirement Plan Limits: Modest Increases

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The Internal Revenue Service announced the 2025 cost-of-living adjustments to the dollar limitations for qualified retirement plans and other benefits, and the Social Security Administration announced its own cost-of-living...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Interim Guidance on Matching Qualified Student Loan Payments

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Until recently, employer matching contributions under qualified plans were required to be conditioned solely upon employee contributions made to the plan. However, one of the many changes enacted by the Consolidated...more

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Qualcomm fails to get forfeiture case tossed

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A federal judge in San Diego rejected Qualcomm Inc.’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit by a 401(k) plan participant over forfeitures....more

Littler

July is Still the New January! Littler’s Workplace Policy Institute’s Mid-Year Legislative Report

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Hot off the press – here is Littler’s mid-year report!  As federal regulators, states and cities continue to pass new workplace regulations through the calendar year, we summarize each state’s notable labor and employment law...more

Quarles & Brady LLP

2023 Year-End Employee Benefits Updates

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This newsletter provides updates employers should be aware of heading into 2024, including an outline of the updated 2024 retirement and welfare plan limits, instructions related to the “gag order” attestation requirements...more

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IRS Announces 2024 Retirement Plan Limits: Modest Increases

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The Internal Revenue Service announced the 2024 cost-of-living adjustments to the dollar limitations for qualified retirement plans and other benefits, and the Social Security Administration announced its own cost-of-living...more

Alston & Bird

Retirement Plan Amendments and 2023 Year-End Action Items

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Our Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Group reminds plan sponsors to get ready for 2023 IRS year-end amendments and offers year-end action items....more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

IRS Announces 2024 Dollar Limitations for Retirement Plans

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The IRS has announced the 2024 annual dollar limitations for retirement plans based on the applicable cost-of-living adjustment guidelines, with increases in many of the limits. The annual limit for elective deferrals to...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

IRS Announces 2024 Employee Benefit Plan Limits

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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently announced the cost-of-living adjustments to the applicable dollar limits for various employer-sponsored retirement and welfare plans for 2024. Certain health and welfare plan limits...more

Nossaman LLP

Podcast: Cybersecurity Risk Management for Pension Plan Administrators: Tips for Staying Ahead of the Hackers

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With recent well-publicized data breaches impacting pension systems and their retirees nationally, as well as increased Department of Labor scrutiny surrounding cybersecurity policies and procedures implemented by ERISA...more

Williams Mullen

SECURE Act 2.0 Summary of Changes to Retirement Plans

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President Biden signed the SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022 (“SECURE 2.0”) as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 on December 29, 2022. SECURE 2.0 includes significant changes for the administration of employee benefit...more

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Crypto theft is another strike against Bitcoin 401(k)

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While technology makes it easier for bad actors to steal the retirement assets of plan participants, it’s far easier to steal from 401(k) plans with crypto investments. 401(k) plans that have Bitcoin investments would have a...more

Kilpatrick

Secure Act 2.0 – Summary of Key Provisions

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The House and Senate are moving forward on several versions of legislation, which are collectively known as the “Secure Act 2.0” because they would build off of the Secure Act, the last major retirement plan legislation...more

Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC

DOL Expresses Extreme Concern Over Prudence of Cryptocurrency Investments in 401(k) Plans

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On March 10, 2022, the United States Department of Labor (DOL) published Compliance Assistance Release No. 2022-01 (Release) addressing “cryptocurrency” investment in 401(k) retirement plans. In its Release, the DOL expressed...more

Kilpatrick

Brokerage Window Fiduciary Duties in Light of DOL Cryptocurrency Guidance

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The DOL’s (DOL) recent warning that it is launching a new investigative program aimed at plans that offer investments in cryptocurrency and related products, including through brokerage windows, sent shockwaves through the...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

DOL Warns Sponsors against Permitting Cryptocurrency-Related Investments on 401(k) Plan Investment Menus

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The U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) last month issued Compliance Assistance Release No. 2022-1 - 401(k) Plan Investments in “Cryptocurrencies” (the “Release”) in which it strongly cautions ERISA plan fiduciaries to use...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

Happy National Employee Benefits Day – – April 5, 2022!!

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Last year about this time, we wrote of how far we had come collectively in the world of employee benefits roughly one year after the onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic. We reveled at how we kept on keeping on, what we were able...more

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