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General Account and Separate Account Products Are ERISA Prohibited Transactions; Diversified Synthetic Stable Value Is Not
The Commonsense 401(k) Project 
[Opinion] Dec. 30, 2025 "For more than 30 years, 'stable value' has been marketed to retirement plan fiduciaries as a conservative, low-risk, bond-like option. That description is only accurate for one form of stable value: diversified synthetic stable value. General Account (GA) and Separate Account (SA) stable value products are fundamentally different. They embed insurance spread products, opaque crediting decisions, and conflicted compensation structures that directly collide with ERISA's duties of loyalty, prudence, and prohibited-transaction rules." MORE >> |
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