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Benefits in the News > By Subject > Ret plan investments - misc Now Viewing Recent Headlines View Excerpts and Recent Headlines 401(k) Plan Brokerage Windows and Participant Fee Disclosures (PDF) Why Low Costs and Fees Are So Important to the Success of Your Company's 401(k) Plan [Opinion] How Much Company Stock is Too Much in Your 401(k) Account? Pension Fund Investors Eye European Chaos for Opportunity ERISA Budget Accounts: Revenue Sharing in Retirement Plans [Opinion] Text of Comments by Investment Company Institute to SEC on the Results of Investor Testing Regarding Target Date Funds in Connection with the Target Date Retirement Fund Names and Marketing Proposal (PDF) 401(k) Fees, Revenue Sharing and Fiduciary Duty (PDF) Text of GAO Report: Results of Survey of 401(k) Plan Sponsors on Fees [Guidance Overview] Revenue Sharing Payments: Some Tips for Retirement Plan Fiduciaries [Official Guidance] Final SEC Regs on Definition of 'Swap Dealer' and 'Securities-Based Swap Dealer' Under Dodd-Frank Act Including Swap Positions Maintained by an ERISA Plan or Governmental Plan (PDF) By 3-to-1 Margin, Small Employers in California Support Proposed Admission of Private Employers Into State-Run Retirement Plan (PDF) Should You 'Buy an Annuity' from Social Security by Waiting to Start Social Security Payments? (PDF) 'Universal Advisor Performance Standards' Proposed by BrightScope and The Spaulding Group How Giant Advice Provider Financial Engines Can Sweep the 401(k) Field -- Or Not Average 401(k) Balance 62% Above 2009, Fidelity Says [Opinion] Text of Morningstar Comment Letter to SEC on Need for More Disclosure to Investors in Target-Date Funds Florida Agency Says Legislators Should Consider Increase in Required Employee Contributions to Pension Fund DOL FAQs Address Participant Fee Disclosure Rules as Applied to Brokerage Windows, Calculation of Total Annual Operating Expense Ratio The Implications of SEC's Capital Buffer Proposals for Money Market Funds (PDF) DOL Alleges Idaho Plan Administrator Misused Retirement Funds Is Your Target-Date Fund's Glide Path Unstable? New York City and State Pension Fund Chiefs Sing Praises of DB Plans and Offer Reforms [Guidance Overview] Eleventh Circuit Becomes Latest to Adopt Rebuttable Presumption That Fiduciaries Act Prudently by Investing in Employer Stock The Case for Indexing as an Investment Strategy vs. 'Active' Investment Management Actuarial Techniques to Manage Pension Risk (PDF) 2012 Industry Survey of Target Date Funds (PDF) Indexed Target Date Funds Hitting the Mark with Plan Sponsors [Guidance Overview] The Final 408(b)(2) Regulation: Impact on Investment Managers (PDF) Funded Status of U.S. Pensions Declines to 76.3 Percent in April Investment Advisers Often Tell Customers What They Want to Hear, Tout Higher-Fee Products, Finance Professors Conclude 'Institutionalizing' DC Plans: Reasons Why and Methods How (PDF) Avoiding Surprises in Pension Contribution Liability: How Public Employers Can Anticipate and Evaluate 'Pension Risk' (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Does Your 401(k) Plan Have an Investment Policy Statement and Do Your Fiduciaries Follow It? [Guidance Overview] Former Trustee Liable for over $4 Million for Breach of Fiduciary Duty First Quarter 2012 Pension Plan Funded Status Experience (PDF) New Trade Association for Retirement Plan Advisors Grows Much More Than Expected [Opinion] Text of Comments by ASPPA on Proposed Modifications to Minimum Present Value Regs for Partial Annuity Distribution Options under DB Plans Pension Plan Underfunding Rises Slightly During April Managing the Volatility of Defined Benefit Plan Funded Ratios and Contributions Risks and Rewards of Opening a Lump-Sum Distribution Option to Already-Terminated Pension Plan Participants A Survey of Current Recordkeeping Practices for 'ERISA Budget Accounts' (PDF) Stockton, California Bankruptcy Would Public Employee Pensions and Bondholders Nationwide [Opinion] Text of ICI Comments on Proposed IRS Regs Under Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (PDF) The Fiduciary Assessment of an Investment Advisor (PDF) Text of U.S. Census Bureau Summary Report on State and Locally Administered Pensions, 2010 (PDF) Ten Things Plan Fiduciaries Should Avoid (PDF) Federal Reserve Bank Is No Friend of Defined Benefit Retirement Plans ERISA Section 408(b)(2) Is about Plan Sponsors' Continued Fiduciary Obligations Would Tax Increases at the Top Affect Savings and Investment? Advances in Managing Pension Asset Volatility Despite Proliferation of Service-Providers and Monitoring Firms, Plan Sponsors Can't Shed Ultimate Liability [Guidance Overview] 401(k) Plan Fees in Turmoil: District Court in Tussey Case Finds Fiduciary Breaches but Third Circuit Does Not A Look at the Funding of 'ERISA Accounts' Using Mutual Funds [Guidance Overview] DOL Files Suit to Recover Losses to ESOP of California-Based Parrot Cellular Examining Exchange-Traded Funds (PDF) Glide Path Strategies to Reach Funding Goals Monitoring the Risks to the U.S. Economy of Weaknesses in State and Local Government Finance Public Pension Funds and Public Finances ERISA Fiduciaries Can Be Liable for Misdeeds of Others [Opinion] Is Dual Registration the Cause of Opposition to the Fiduciary Standard? 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