Investment selection and monitoring is an important fiduciary duty, one of the hardest for plan sponsors, and often the subject of retirement plan litigation. Plan sponsors have an array of investments to choose from—different vehicles, different asset classes, different costs. There are questions about which is the best qualified default investment alternative (QDIA) for their plans and whether plan participants understand investments or need help. Then, if there is a wide swing—especially a downturn—in the markets, both plan sponsors and their plan participants need to keep a cool head and think about the long-term. We hope that this edition of PLANSPONSOR Weekend offers some helpful information about retirement plan investing.

Industry expert replaces BPAS SVP of Fiduciary Services; USI Consulting employs VP of Retirement Services; Cafaro Greenleaf announces addition of investment analyst; and more.

Also being considered is legislation for expanding benefits of HSAs.

Among the bills approved by the House Ways and Means Committee is one that would qualify significantly more health treatments, services and over-the-counter drugs for HSA spending.

Commenting on the decision, Segal Consulting says it is “consistent with every other decision handed down in similar cases except for one,” the Southern District of New York Court’s decision in The New York Times Company v. Newspaper and Mail Deliverers’-Publishers’ Pension Fund, which is being appealed.

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