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Pensions: Joint DB & DC trustee agenda update – November 2024

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Welcome to our monthly update on current legal issues for trustees of DB and hybrid pension schemes, designed to help you stay up to date with key developments between trustee meetings and to support the legal update item on...more

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PBGC Updates Premium Rates for 2025

The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) insures most private sector (i.e., non-governmental) defined benefit pension plans. The Plan Administrator of each pension plan covered under ERISA is required to annually file...more

Carlton Fields

Sometimes, Pension De-Risking Makes Cents

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In a defined benefit plan, participants usually accrue a monthly benefit based on a formula that typically considers their last three years’ salary before retirement and years of service with their employer. For example, the...more

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Pensions: what's new this week - October 21, 2024

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Welcome to your weekly update from the A&O Shearman Pensions team, covering all the latest legal and regulatory developments in the world of workplace pensions. TPR targets continuous improvement on ESG matters - The...more

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Pensions: what’s new this week - September 30, 2024

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Welcome to your weekly update from the A&O Shearman Pensions team, covering all the latest legal and regulatory developments in the world of workplace pensions. TPR publishes statement of strategy templates - New...more

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Pensions: Joint DB & DC trustee agenda update - October 2024

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Welcome to our monthly update on current legal issues for trustees of DB and hybrid pension schemes, designed to help you stay up to date with key developments between trustee meetings and to support the legal update item on...more

Warner Norcross + Judd

50 Years of ERISA: Reflecting on the Past, Present and Future of Employee Benefits

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As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), it is important to reflect on the impact this legislation has had on private sector employee benefit plans such as...more

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Pensions: what's new this week - September 2, 2024

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Welcome to your weekly update from the A&O Shearman Pensions team, covering all the latest legal and regulatory developments in the world of workplace pensions. TRP asks trustees to help shape VFM framework - We...more

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Pensions: DC trustee agenda update - September 2024

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Welcome to our monthly update on current legal issues for trustees of DC pension schemes, designed to help you stay up to date with key developments between trustee meetings and to support the legal update item on your next...more

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Pensions Joint DB DC trustee agenda update September 2024

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Welcome to our monthly update on current legal issues for trustees of DB and hybrid pension schemes, designed to help you stay up to date with key developments between trustee meetings and to support the legal update item on...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Weekly IRS Roundup July 29 – August 2, 2024

Check out our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of July 29, 2024 – August 2, 2024. ...more

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Pensions: what's new this week? - 5 August 2024

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Welcome to your weekly update from the A&O Shearman Pensions team, covering all the latest legal and regulatory developments in the world of workplace pensions. DB Funding Code laid in Parliament - The final draft DB...more

Goodwin

The King’s Speech: Reinforcing The Retailisation of Private Funds

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The Pension Schemes Bill announced in the King’s Speech on 17 July builds on the UK Government’s drive to encourage defined contribution (DC) pension investment in long-term illiquid investments such as private equity,...more

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Pensions: DC trustee update for July 2024 meetings

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Welcome to our monthly update on current legal issues for trustees of DC pension schemes, designed to help you stay up to date with key developments between trustee meetings and to support the legal update item on your next...more

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Pensions Joint DB and DC Trustee agenda for July meetings

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Welcome to our monthly update on current legal issues for trustees of DB and hybrid pension schemes, designed to help you stay up to date with key developments between trustee meetings and to support the legal update item on...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

DOL Final Rule 4.0 - Correcting the historical record

From the 2010 outset of its project to extend ERISA fiduciary status broadly to financial intermediaries, including insurance agents, the US Department of Labor (DOL) has consistently relied on the evolution of the private...more

Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL

Benefits Monthly Minute - June 2024

The June Monthly Minute highlights recent DOL guidance on annuity provider selection for defined benefit plans and IRS Q&As that provide details on SECURE 2.0’s optional emergency and domestic abuse victim distributions for...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

The N.Y.Times Offers a History Lesson in Retirement Anxiety

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The beauty of studying history is that it some times sews together a credible narrative. We have written a fair amount about America’s anxiety, both financial and political. But today’s podcast, an interview with Michael...more

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Why Is There No IRS Correction Program for Non-Governmental 457(b) Plans?

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This post examines excess deferrals under non-governmental 457(b) plans, including the approved method for correcting them and the penalty for failing to correct them, to make the case for a change in IRS policy on correcting...more

Morgan Lewis

Final 417(e) Regulations Add New Requirements and Offer Design Flexibility

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The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently issued final regulations concerning “minimum present value requirements” for tax-qualified defined benefit plans (DB plans). There are three primary changes for sponsors of DB...more

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Pensions: what's new this week - 25 March 2024

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Welcome to your weekly update from the Allen & Overy Pensions team, covering all the latest legal and regulatory developments in the world of workplace pensions. This week we cover the following topics: TPR action and...more

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Pensions: Joint DB & DC trustee agenda update - April 2024

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Welcome to our monthly update on current legal issues for trustees of DB and hybrid pension schemes, designed to help you stay up to date with key developments between trustee meetings, and to support the legal update item on...more

Morgan Lewis - ML Benefits

Dealing with the Dearly Departed in Multiemployer Defined Benefit Plans

Recent headlines involving the Central States Teamsters Pension Fund and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation’s (PBGC) Special Financial Assistance (SFA) Program highlights an issue with meaningful consequences for...more

Williams Mullen

PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion - What the J&J Case Means for Plan Administrators

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On this episode of Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion, host Brydon DeWitt discusses a recent ERISA class action case, Lewandowski v. Johnson & Johnson et al., that is a wake-up call for plan fiduciaries managing health and...more

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Pension: what's new this week 4 March 2024

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This week we cover the following topics: Government consults on options for DB schemes; HRMC pension schemes newsletter; FRC begins first phase of UK Stewardship Code review; TPR publishes report on 2023 DB survey...more

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