[Guidance Overview]
"[It] is highly unlikely that the PTE will be effective on February 16, if ever. That creates a situation where the expanded DOL interpretation of the definition of fiduciary advice for rollovers is probably here to stay, but the exemption for conflicted recommendations to rollover IRAs will not be effective, at least for the foreseeable future. Fortunately, the DOL has extended its non-enforcement policy on nondiscretionary fiduciary advice to December 20, 2021."
FredReish.com
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[Guidance Overview]
"Plan sponsors may want to consider amending their plan document to provide for immediate eligibility for part-time employees solely for elective deferrals. This will reduce the burden on plan sponsors who find it difficult to track part-time employees' hours in regards to the SECURE Act's new eligibility and vesting rules."
ORBA
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35 pages. "This report analyzes pending proposals for a financial transaction tax (FTT) before Congress that would place a tax ranging from 0.02-0.5 percent on all equity, debt and derivatives trades transacted in the United States. As detailed in this report, the FTT would create a drag on investments for investors across the board, big and small."
Modern Markets Initiative
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"At the time of its passage, some in the retirement industry were concerned that, while relief was needed, this bill would 'open the floodgates' to a large percentage of workers cashing out years of retirement savings. Fortunately, this did not happen. Analysis of Vanguard defined contribution (DC) recordkeeping data shows a modest portion of workers did access their retirement savings in 2020, but that the vast majority of participants remained steadfast on their retirement journey."
Vanguard
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"For anyone who had been contemplating retiring in 2020, the first quarter couldn't have been easy. Stocks fell 34% in 23 days ... As of Dec. 31, 2020, the average return of a vintage 2020 target-date fund was 10.8%, one percentage point lower than the 11.7% return for a balanced fund with a 50% to 70% equity allocation ... In the first quarter, 2020 target-date funds overall fell 10%, on average."
Barron's
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"[N]early $3 billion exited the Thrift Savings Plan this year as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.... TSP participants took out 3,043 CARES Act loans over the normal $50,000 cap, for a total of $229 million. And 119,720 participants withdrew money using the CARES Act flexibilities, totaling $2.9 billion. Despite these figures, assets in the TSP grew in 2021."
Government Executive
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[Opinion]
"Manual processing when consumers switch from one plan to the next is one example of the extreme inefficiency in today's system that makes it cumbersome, slow, and expensive for administrators -- and therefore less user-friendly for workers trying to save.... [W]hile innovation is abundant in financial services -- distributed ledger, predictive analytics, machine learning, data aggregation, artificial intelligence, gamification, APIs -- the retirement industry has lagged in investing in and leveraging these disruptive technologies effectively."
Aspen Institute
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Executive Compensation and Nonqualified Plans
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[Guidance Overview]
"A proactive approach to compliance will ease the transition to the new post-Act Code Section 162(m) framework and help preserve the relief offered by the grandfather rule.... [1] Determine whether your organization is considered a publicly held corporation and thus subject to Code Section 162(m). [2] Review your organizational structure and identify all other publicly held corporations in your affiliated group, including predecessor corporations. [3] Establish internal procedures for tracking covered employees. [4] Identify the extent to which these employees' benefits are grandfathered under the Final Regulations."
Groom Law Group
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