After the Republican-controlled Florida legislature voted in June 2000 to introduce a defined contribution plan for the state's 660,000 workers, surveys suggested that about half of them would shift ...

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A Trump Administration Executive Order on investments in private equity, real estate, and digital assets in defined contribution plans President Trump has issued an Executive Order ("Order") to enable ...

What are the responsibilities of the Retirement Plan Committee? The Defined Contribution Retirement Plan Committee assists with guidance and oversight of the investment options offered through ...

The IRC permits two types of tax qualified plans: defined contribution plans, and defined benefit plans. A defined contribution plan is characterized by two elements: 1) each participant has an ...

There have been recent developments from both the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) and the Department of Labor (“DOL”) and pending court cases about how plan forfeitures under defined contribution ...

Annual additions include employee contributions, employer contributions, and forfeitures. The annual additions to a participant's account (or all such accounts aggregated, if the employer has more ...

When you’ve worked at a big company like Morningstar for as long as I have, you become a little bit skeptical when coworkers start tossing around the word “innovative” to describe a new product or ...

A majority of corporate defined contribution plans expect to boost real asset allocations in the next two years, according to a global survey released by Aviva Investors on Jan. 29. As defined ...

The government must prioritise raising the default minimum level of contributions to defined contribution pension schemes, according to retail investment firm Tillit. The company is the latest to ...