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Deals and People
The Standard Will Acquire Securian Financial’s Recordkeeping Business
The Standard Will Acquire Securian Financial’s Recordkeeping Business
The Standard entered into the definitive agreement to grow its geographical footprint.
Products
T. Rowe Price Adds Emergency Savings App
The tool can help employers to address workers’ financial emergencies.
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Compliance
IRS Proposes Regulations for Changes to SECURE 2.0 RMDs
Opinions
Encouraging Trends in 401(k) Plan Design
Compliance
What Increased Health Plan-Related Scrutiny Means for Plan Sponsors
MARKET MIRROR
Tuesday, the Dow increased 337.98 points (1.12%) to close at 30,523.80, the Nasdaq gained 96.60 points (0.90%) to close at 10,772.40 and the S&P 500 was up 42.03 points (1.14%) to end trading at 3,719.98. The Russell 2000 increased 20.20 points (1.16%) to close at 1,755.96 and the Wilshire 5000 gained 446.69 points (1.21%) to close at 37,213.65.

The price of the 10-year Treasury note increased 1/32 bringing the yield down to 4.003%. The price of the 30-year Treasury bond  decreased 1/32 bringing the yield up to 4.027%. 
Compliance
Rising ERISA Litigation and the Importance of Section 104 Disclosure
Defense and plaintiff attorneys offer strikingly different accounts of the systemic issues haunting the ERISA litigation space.
ASK THE EXPERTS
Can a Current Active Participant Transfer Assets From a Frozen Plan To an Active ERISA 403(b) Plan?
“We are a private health care entity that sponsors an active ERISA 403(b) plan and an old frozen non-ERISA 403(b) plan. Is a current active participant in the ERISA 403(b) able to transfer assets in from the frozen non-ERISA plan?”
SURVEYS
DC Survey Now Open
For more than 20 years, PLANSPONSOR’s annual Defined Contribution Survey has provided benchmarking data for nearly 50 industries/business sectors and for 401(k), 403(b), and other DC plans, as well as nonqualified plans. Represent your industry and plan type by participating, and you’ll receive a free benchmarking report.
SMALL TALK
ON THIS DATE: In 1789, John Jay was sworn in as the first chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1781, British General Lord Cornwallis surrendered 8,000 British soldiers and seamen to a larger Franco-American force, effectively bringing an end to the American Revolution. In 1812, one month after Napoleon Bonaparte’s invading force entered Moscow, the French army was forced to retreat out of Russia. In 1977, the supersonic Concorde airplane made its first landing in New York City. In 1985, the first Blockbuster video-rental store opened in Dallas. In 1987, the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 508 points—22.6%—the largest-ever one-day percentage decline. In 2006, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ended the day at 12,011.73. It was the first ever close above 12,000.
Industry Intel Roundup—Featured Webinars
PLANSPONSOR is pleased to present the next edition of our Industry Intelligence roundup. This week, we are featuring webinars sponsored by experienced providers in the industry. The content was created to educate, inform and offer ideas for plan sponsors regarding plan design, investing, administration and compliance.
September 19, 2024
Financial Wellness
Plan sponsors, advisers and policy experts will offer suggestions for how best to define and measure the financial wellness of participants and drive financial confidence. The panel will also review how they evaluate the myriad new offerings appearing as a result of the voluntary benefits provisions of SECURE 2.0. Attendees will come away with tangible metrics for determining which programs will offer the most useful and valuable programs for their employees.
December 12, 2024
Plan Benchmarking
How do plan sponsors determine the right goals for their plans or measure plan success? What tools are available to benchmark retirement plans? What should plans be measuring and how often? What kinds of actions or improvements can measurements drive? These questions and more will be answered in PLANSPONSOR’s final editorial webinar of 2024.
SPONSORED BY: Principal Financial Group | June 26, 2024
Best practices to manage defined benefit plan costs and risks
Defined benefit plan sponsors are faced with a myriad of challenges when assessing the impact of plan costs and risks across their organization. Join our panel of pension specialists and learn about the: - strategies to reduce Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) premiums. - value of accurate data. - benefits of consolidating service providers. - importance of re-examining the DB plan formula. - advantages of hedging risk before and after a pension risk transfer.
SPONSORED BY: Corebridge Financial | June 20, 2024
The Future of Work in an Aging World
A combination of longer life expectancy and plunging birth rates has created a very different demographic future, especially in industrialized countries. In the US, we are entering Peak 65®, the period when most of the Baby Boom generation will have already retired, and by the end of this decade, people over the age of 65 in the US will outnumber people under the age of 18 for the first time ever. Over the last century, the population over the age of 65 has grown at a rate five times faster than the total population and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Other countries have begun to feel the consequences of aging long before the US. In Japan, 30% of the population is already over 65, and 10% is over 80. Countries like Japan, South Korea and Singapore have already begun to reshape work, retirement, health care, and housing rules to prepare for the “silver tsunami”. These changes will have profound implications on everything from how we work to how and when we retire to how we think about healthy aging.
SPONSORED BY: Newport, an Ascensus company | June 13, 2024
Gain the Edge: Navigating NQDC Trends
Recent changes in the nonqualified deferred compensation (NQDC) plan landscape present new opportunities for employers. Tap into the latest trends—and use them to your advantage. Newport, an Ascensus company, and PLANSPONSOR have partnered to bring you the 2024 Newport/PLANSPONSOR NQDC Trends Survey. Don’t miss this year’s webinar, where our experts will share critical insights from the report. Leveraging data from over 268 of the country’s leading employers, this report is the retirement industry’s broadest and most comprehensive employer view of NQDC plans.
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