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Mayer Brown

DB Pension Endgame Options – Pensions Regulator Guidance

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The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has published guidance for trustees on new models and options for DB and hybrid pension schemes. While some of these are endgame options, the guidance also covers options for improving financial...more

Polsinelli

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

Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP

The Estate Planner, July/August 2021

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Annual exclusion gifts - A deceptively powerful estate planning strategy - In 2021, the federal lifetime gift and estate tax exemption amount is a whopping $11.7 million. So, for most people, it may seem like planning...more

Laner Muchin, Ltd.

Supreme Court Emphasizes Requirements About Selecting and Monitoring Plan Investments

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Plan administrators, investment committees and any other plan fiduciary responsible for selectingthe investment options of an employee benefit plan subject to ERISA should take note of the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling in...more

Weintraub Tobin

Supreme Court Hits Home Run for 401(K) Plan Beneficiaries

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This week’s decision by the United States Supreme Court in Tibble v. Edison International, 2015 U.S. LEXIS 3171 (May 18, 2015), is expected to trigger an increase in lawsuits against 401(k) plan fiduciaries....more

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