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ESOP Transactions and the Duty to Monitor Revisited

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Key Takeaways: Board’s Duty to Monitor the Trustee: A company’s board of directors has a fiduciary duty to monitor the ESOP trustee’s actions in an ESOP transaction, ensuring that the trustee is acting in the exclusive...more

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Monitoring the Activities of a Plan Fiduciary Committee: Recommendations to a Board of Directors

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It is axiomatic that a person who has fiduciary responsibility with respect to an ERISA benefit plan must monitor the performance of any plan service provider or other person to whom it has delegated fiduciary duties on an...more

Bricker Graydon LLP

Are You Maximizing Retirement for Executives?

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If you are not offering a supplemental executive retirement plan (“SERP”) to your officers and executives, you likely have to answer “no” to the above.  Since a SERP is designed to supplement other retirement benefits offered...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

UK Local Government Pensions Schemes Will Vote Against Chairs of Oil Companies Failing to Meet Climate Pledges

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Border to Coast Pension Partnership (the “Partnership”), a pension pool consisting of 11 UK local government pension schemes, announced that “[o]il majors and banks must make greater progress on climate pledges or risk losing...more

Cooley LLP

Board refreshment: are evaluations preferable to retirement policies?

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A new report from The Conference Board (together with ESG data analytics firm ESGAUGE) , Board Refreshment and Evaluations, indicates that, in pursuit of board diversity—in skills, professional experience, gender,...more

Bracewell LLP

ESG Investing and Retirement Plans

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Background - As ESG (environmental, social and governance) investing recently has drawn the attention of governmental agencies that oversee the administration of qualified retirement plans and their trillions of dollars...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Chris Lazarini Examines Allegations of ERISA Fiduciary Violations

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Bass, Berry & Sims attorney Chris Lazarini examined allegations brought by members of a company’s 403(b) retirement savings plan that the plan fiduciaries violated their duties by selecting and failing to replace higher-cost...more

Zuckerman Spaeder LLP

Hold on to Your (Top) Hat: ERISA Section 502(a)(3) May Be Used to Enforce the Terms of a “Top-Hat” Benefits Plan

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Thanksgiving is typically a time for gratitude, gathering with family, and acts of kindness among fellow men and women. But in one recent case, a bank used Thanksgiving to force-feed a separation agreement to its outgoing...more

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Perspectives - September/October 2015

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In a decision in which no opinion commanded a majority, the Ohio Supreme Court sided with a private entity — a charter school operator — in a dispute over the ownership of personal property purchased by the operator with...more

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Sixth Circuit: ERISA’s Whistleblower Provision Doesn’t Protect Giving Information

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The Sixth Circuit (in a 2-1 decision) recently held that ERISA Section 510 does not protect unsolicited employee complaints. See Sexton v. Panel Processing, Inc., 2014 U.S. App. LEXIS 8752 (6th Cir. May 9, 2014). Plaintiff...more

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