News & Analysis as of August 21, 2025

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

Ballard Spahr LLP on 8/14/2025

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

2023 Year-End Employee Benefits Updates

Quarles & Brady LLP on 11/16/2023

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

How DOL’s Cybersecurity Guidance Impacts Retirement and Health/Welfare Plans

Quarles & Brady LLP on 8/20/2021

In April 2021, the Department of Labor issued cybersecurity guidance to plan fiduciaries and participants in the form of three separate documents: Tips for Hiring Service Providers with Strong Cybersecurity Practices;...more

DOL Begins Its Cybersecurity Audit Initiative – And It’s a Doozy

Morgan Lewis - ML Benefits on 6/11/2021

We repeatedly warned over the past few months, that officials at the highest levels of the DOL were signaling that the DOL would begin an audit initiative focusing on retirement plan cybersecurity practices. ...more

Department of Labor issues novel cybersecurity guidance for benefit plan sponsors and their service providers

Hogan Lovells on 5/7/2021

On April 14, the Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) issued its first cybersecurity-focused guidance related to benefit plans regulated by Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)....more

EBSA Speaks: New Guidance for Mitigating Retirement Plan Cybersecurity Risk

Epstein Becker & Green on 4/19/2021

On April 14, 2021, the U.S. Department of Labor’s (“DOL’s”) Employee Benefits Security Administration (“EBSA”) issued its first cybersecurity best practices guidance for retirement plans. The guidance is set forth in three...more

ERISA Plan Sponsors – Watch Your Participants’ Data! DOL Issues New Cybersecurity Guidance for Retirement Plans

Akerman LLP - HR Defense on 4/16/2021

In response to a recent General Accounting Office (GAO) report recommending federal guidance to mitigate cybersecurity risks in retirement plans and to respond to ever-increasing cyber threats to plan participant data and...more

The DOL Is Focusing on Cybersecurity; Plan Fiduciaries May Want to Consider Doing the Same

Morgan Lewis - ML Benefits on 3/22/2021

There has been an increasing focus in recent years on the intersection of ERISA’s fiduciary duties and the issues of cybersecurity and data (including participant data) protection. Beyond the potential for pecuniary and...more

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