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That the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) provides a financial safety net for millions of retirees and plan participants. But what are those threads made of? The Congressional Research Service (CRS) offers an answer.
In “Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC): A Primer,” the CRS...
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The Garden State has formally proposed a new uniform fiduciary standard – and there’s some good news.
Issued April 15 by New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal and the state’s Bureau of Securities, the proposed rule would establish by regulation a common law fiduciary duty and apply it to...
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Technology offers a dazzling array of ever-expanding options for retirement plans and participants. But not everyone is interested in tech. Some recent blog entries suggest ways to heighten the experience, as well as non-tech ways to serve a plan and its participants.
Technological advances march...
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Discipline. It can be routine, it can be difficult, but its rewards can be many. Among them, argues a recent blog entry, is the ounce of prevention that consistent application of due diligence offers.
In “Due Diligence Is a Piece of Cake — Unless You Don’t Do it,” a post published recently on the...
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Issuing an executive order designed to “promote private investment in the Nation’s energy infrastructure,” the Trump administration has called for a review involving retirement plan investments.
The executive order directs the Secretary of Labor to, “within 180 days of the date of this order,...
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ASPPA is always providing information and insights that will be valuable to its members! Following is a summary of upcoming webcasts and events.
Live Webcasts
ASPPA Webcast: IRS Audits and DOL Investigations of Plans and TPAs
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
2:00–3:40 p.m. ET
Speaker: Fred Reish, APM,...
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Increasing concern about transforming accumulated savings into a secure retirement is driving interest in income-generating vehicles via workplace retirement plans, according to new survey results.
BlackRock’s DC Pulse Survey of more than 1,000 DC plan participants and more than 200 plan sponsors...
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A new report notes that large companies have paid out $6.2 billion in 201 ERISA class-action lawsuits since 2000.
And that’s the total of (just) 201 settlements and verdicts since the beginning of 2000 involving corporations in the Fortune 1000, the Fortune Global 500 and the Forbes list of...
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The digital age means more than just a universe of information in the palms of our hands. It also means that plans and those who serve them have powerful new tools to facilitate and drive retirement readiness. Behavioral economist Shlomo Benartzi, Senior Academic Advisor for the Voya Behavioral...
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So you think your data is safe? It probably isn't, as keynote speaker Kevin Mitnick, “the world’s most famous hacker” and bestselling author, demonstrated at the 2019 NAPA 401(k) Summit.
Mitnick, once on the FBI’s Most Wanted list, is now a trusted security consultant to Fortune 500 companies...
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