"The first proposal would designate contract value as the only required measure for fully benefit-responsive investment contracts.... The second proposal would require that participant-directed and nonparticipant-directed investments of employee benefit plans be grouped only by general type, eliminating the need to disaggregate the investments in multiple ways.... [The third proposal would allow] employers to measure defined benefit plan assets on a month-end date nearest to the employer's fiscal year end when the fiscal period does not coincide with a month end."  MORE >>