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Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP in the Benefits Law Journal
Mar. 5, 2008
Excerpt: This article discusses the new PPA 401(k) plan automatic enrollment, escalation and qualified default investment election rules and the hopeful impact they may have on employees' retirement security. A tongue-in-cheek 'model' employer notice to plan participants, wryly observes that those who completely ignore their long-term financial needs may wake up to a sizable nest egg upon retirement.
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Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP in the Benefits Law Journal
Apr. 4, 2007
3 pages. Excerpt: As it turns out, perhaps the best feature of pension plans was not that they were totally funded by the company -- most employers figured pension costs into an employee's total pay package and adjusted other elements accordingly. Rather, the beauty of the defined benefit plan was that they served as a painless, automatic savings vehicle for millions of employees who did not need to make any financial decisions about their retirement savings until they left the company.
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Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP in the Benefits Law Journal
Oct. 23, 2007
4 pages. Excerpt: Slogging through the nearly 400 pages of final Section 409A regulations is like walking away from a horrible auto accident, thinking 'it could have been worse.' It certainly is an improvement over the October 2005 proposed regulations. On the positive side, a lot of ambiguity was removed and some of the more unworkable rules, such as a lack of a good reason standard for a severance plan or the definition of service provider stock for private companies, are cleaned up.
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Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP in the Benefits Law Journal
Feb. 1, 2008
3 pages. Excerpt: The article describes how some companies are responding to the strict legal and accounting standards for funding defined benefit pension plans with increased investment in fixed income securities. While such 'liability-driven' investment strategies should minimize the effect of market changes on the new funding requirements imposed by the Pension Protection Act, it also can lead to investment underperformance. The article explores how excessive government regulation is leading some employers to adopt this investment approach.
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Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP in the Benefits Law Journal
Mar. 9, 2007
15 pages. "Bad boy provisions were found in compensation plans and agreements long before the enactment of SOA. The 2000 stock plan design and administration survey issued by the National Association of Stock Plan Professionals (NASPP) indicated that 23.8 percent of the companies surveyed in 2000 had stock option plans containing noncompete forfeiture provisions." [Originally published Summer 2005]
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