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Ropes & Gray LLP

DOL Sheds Light on the Fiduciary Responsibilities That Arise with Pooled Employer Plans PEPs

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On July 28, 2025, the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) issued some new interpretive guidance as part of a request for information (“RFI”) about pooled employer plans (“PEPs”) and an employer’s fiduciary responsibilities that...more

Ary Rosenbaum - The Rosenbaum Law Firm P.C.

The Problem of Organizational Drift For 401(k) Plan Providers

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I enjoy business history and why certain businesses and organizations fail. I knew Sears and Blockbuster Video would fail, years ahead of time. I knew the synagogue where I was a member and where my son had his bris, would...more

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Be Choosy When Picking Your 401(k) Plan’s TPA

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I was very lucky that when I started as an ERISA attorney in 1998, I worked as a staff attorney for a third-party administrator (TPA). It gave me insight and experience that I could never have gotten as an attorney working...more

Miller Canfield

American Airlines Breaches Fiduciary Duty of Loyalty with BlackRock ESG Funds in 401(k) Plans

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Whether, and the extent to which, a plan fiduciary can consider nonpecuniary environmental, social and governance (“ESG”) objectives in selecting plan investments has been a hot-button issue for many years, with the view on...more

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Don’t shrug

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One of my pet peeves out there is when you give a list of complaints to a business or an organization and they give the proverbial “shrug of the shoulders.” The “proverbial shrug” is basically the business or the organization...more

Morgan Lewis - ML Benefits

Department of Labor Teases Cryptocurrency Interest

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Hinting that the US Department of Labor (DOL) is currently working on guidance related to cryptocurrency, the Acting Assistant Secretary for the DOL’s Employee Benefits Security Administration recently commented that the DOL...more

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Crypto can only be offered in a self-directed window

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People know that I love crypto investing, but hate it as a potential 401(k) investment for almost all plan participants....more

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Matrix sued, but there is a vantage to the story

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Matrix Trust Co. is being sued in a 401(k) class-action lawsuit by a Minnesota engineering firm that alleges that Matrix took millions of dollars from retirement plan accounts. MBA Engineering alleges that Matrix Trust...more

Bowditch & Dewey

DOL Proposes New Rules for Selecting Retirement Plan Investments

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If you are a member of the committee for your employer’s pension, 401(k), profit-sharing, or 403(b) plan, you should check out a set of proposed rules for selecting investments. If you have an outside investment advisor, as...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

SECURE Act and Guaranteed Income (Part 2)

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The introduction to my last post, SECURE Act Part 1, explained: There are two parts of the SECURE Act that I believe will have the greatest impact on my clients: plan sponsors and plan service providers. The first includes...more

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