President Obama Signs Pension Funding Relief into Law
Excerpt: "The Act gives plan sponsors additional time to amortize pension funding shortfalls, which, before the Act, had to be amortized over seven years."
(Ballard Spahr LLP)

Pension Funding Relief Enacted (PDF)
Excerpt: "The Preservation of Access to Care for Medicare Beneficiaries and Pension Relief Act of 2010 (the 2010 Relief Act) contains provisions designed to ease the cash contribution burden for many single employer and multiemployer sponsors."
(Buck Consultants)

Legislation Provides Relief for Pension Funding and Benefit Restrictions (PDF)
2 pages. Excerpt: "This brief description summarizes the cash flow rule; however there are many complexities involved in understanding, evaluating and administering it. For some plan sponsors it could result in substantial and unplanned contributions and thus should be evaluated carefully before funding relief is elected."
(Towers Watson)

How to Make Lemonade from Your 401(k) Plan's Lemons
Excerpt: "If you aren't already maxing out on your 401(k) contribution, increase your contribution rate by at least one percentage point every year until your total contributions (yours and your company match) are at least 15 percent of your salary."
(CBS MoneyWatch.com)

Lawmakers Ease Swap Restrictions for Retirement Plans in Financial Overhaul Bill
Excerpt: "The bill eases earlier provisions that would have prevented some defined contribution plans from offering stable-value funds and severely limited defined benefit plans' ability to use swaps to hedge investment risk."
(Mercer LLC)

Exclusive Comments from Industry Insiders Suggest Fin-Reg's Fiduciary Standard May Impact 401(k) Plan Sponsors
Excerpt: "The implementation of a universal fiduciary standard may require 401k plan sponsors to revisit the vendors currently providing services to their plan and may even cause the removal of some of those providers."
(Fiduciary News)

[Guidance Overview]
Banking Regulatory Agencies Issue Final Guidance on Sound Incentive Compensation Policies (PDF)
5 pages. Excerpt: "The Agencies' final guidance covers all banking organizations under their supervision (approximately 8,000 in total) and is to be applied to incentive compensation arrangements for three categories of 'covered employees' . . . ."
(Frederic W. Cook & Co., Inc.)

2010 SHRM Employee Benefits Survey Results (PDF)
88 pages. Excerpt: "According to this research, the majority of HR professionals indicated that their organizations have been negatively affected by the U.S. and global economic recession."
(Society of Human Resource Management)

5500 Software Review and Update
Nationwide on June 30, 2010
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Abandoned Plan Program Workshop
in Pennsylvania on July 12, 2010
presented by U.S. Department of Labor, Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA)

Abandoned Plan Program Workshop
in Maryland on July 13, 2010
presented by U.S. Department of Labor, Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA)

COBRA Compliance Workshop
in Utah on July 13, 2010
presented by U.S. Department of Labor, Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA)

Understanding Your Fiduciary Responsibilities Under ERISA Workshop
in Utah on July 13, 2010
presented by U.S. Department of Labor, Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA)

Voluntary Fiduciary Correction Program Workshop
in Pennsylvania on July 12, 2010
presented by U.S. Department of Labor, Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA)

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More than One-Third of Retirement Plan Participants are Saving More to Make Up for the Market Downturn, Says New Diversified Investment Advisors Study
Diversified Investment Advisors

BEMAS Integrates WiredCommute into PayDirect® System Users Now Have New Option To Administer Commuter Benefits
BEMAS Software, Inc.

WageWorks and HSA Bank Team Up to Take Consumer-Driven Plans to the Next Level
WageWorks Inc.

Chantel Sheaks of Buck Consultants Among Top 25 Consultants Selected by Consulting Magazine
Buck Consultants

Schwab's Retirement Plan CTF's Surpass $10 Billion in Assets
Charles Schwab Corporation

Clarity Welcomes Growth To Its Actuarial Practice
Clarity in Numbers, LLC

Vanguard Plans Broad Expansion of Index Offerings
Vanguard

RPAG Unveils Newest Version of e401k Proposal RFP Software
Retirement Plan Advisory Group

Few U.S. Companies Well Prepared for Executive Say-on-Pay Legislation, Towers Watson Survey Finds
Towers Watson

RPG Consultants and Folio Institutional Enter Strategic Relationship
Folio Institutional

OneAmerica to Acquire Retirement Consulting Firm McCready and Keene
OneAmerica Financial Partners

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