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Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

The New Fiduciary Rule (40): Rollovers and the Insurance License Issue

The Department of Labor’s final regulation defining fiduciary status for investment advice to retirement investors will be effective this September 23. Where a fiduciary recommendation results in additional compensation for...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

The DOL’s Regulatory Agenda and a New Fiduciary Rule

The DOL has not appealed the decision in the Florida Federal District Court that vacated its fiduciary “re-interpretation.” That re-interpretation, in effect, said that ongoing investment advice to a rollover IRA could be...more

Ary Rosenbaum - The Rosenbaum Law Firm P.C.

I won’t add annuity options to 401(k) plans

When it comes to plan design, I believe in the idea of KISS: keep it simple, stupid....more

Clark Hill PLC

ERISA 401(K) And Other Defined Contribution Plans Must Add Lifetime Annuity Illustrations to Benefit Statements

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The Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 2019 (“SECURE Act”) amended ERISA to require ERISA-covered 401(k) and other defined contribution plans to provide two estimated lifetime income (annuity)...more

Ary Rosenbaum - The Rosenbaum Law Firm P.C.

BlackRock adding annuities to product lineup

With a push for fixed income products, there is n shock that BlackRock is putting annuities in American workers’ 401(k)Plan....more

Verrill

Retirement Plan Administrators: Are You Ready to Comply with the New Lifetime Income Disclosure Requirement for Benefit...

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Lifetime Income Disclosure Requirement. The Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 2019 (the “SECURE Act”), enacted December 20, 2019, added a new annual disclosure requirement for benefit statements to...more

Burr & Forman

The Countdown Begins for Lifetime Income Disclosures

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The SECURE Act of 2019 made three statutory changes to ERISA regarding lifetime income benefit payments from defined contribution plans (e.g., 401(k), 403(b), profit sharing, and money purchase pension plans). This blog will...more

Groom Law Group, Chartered

Court Challenges to DB Plan Actuarial Assumptions – One Year Later

Eleven cases have been filed against defined benefit pension plan sponsors and certain fiduciaries alleging that the plan’s assumptions—called “actuarial equivalence factors” or “actuarial equivalence assumptions”— for...more

King & Spalding

The SECURE Act Reduces—But Does Not Eliminate—Litigation Risk of Offering Annuities in 401(k) Plans

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On December 20, 2019, President Trump signed into law the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement (SECURE) Act, the most important retirement legislation since the Pension Protection Act of 2006. One of the most...more

Ary Rosenbaum - The Rosenbaum Law Firm P.C.

More annuities in plans is a pause for concern

A growing number of U.S. employers are adding lifetime income solutions to their defined contribution (DC) retirement plans, according to the 2019 Lifetime Income Solutions Survey by Willis Towers Watson....more

King & Spalding

Compensation and Benefits Insights - April 2019

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IRS Re-Opens the Door to Retiree Lump Sum Windows - The IRS recently issued Notice 2019-18, reversing its prior position set forth in Notice 2015-49 that offering retirees in pay status the opportunity to elect a “cash...more

Snell & Wilmer

IRS Changes Course on Lump Sums to Retirees

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In Notice 2019-18, the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) changed its position and now will permit employers to offer lump sum payments to retirees who are currently receiving annuity payments from a defined benefit plan....more

King & Spalding

Mitigating Longevity Risk in DC Plans

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401(k) participants face the risk of outliving retirement assets. However, earlier this month, the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department issued final regulations that make it easier for 401(k) plans, individual...more

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