The Pension Protection Act Blog

The Center for Retirement Research at Boston College has created an interactive retirement game, and posted it on their website. The game is called Get Rich Slow, and follows a fictional couple through several decades starting when they are in their 40’s. For each decade, the game asks retirement-related questions about such topics [...]

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Here is a pretty good ERISA pop quiz written Barbara P. Pletcher of the law firm of Trucker Huss. In 5 questions, Ms. Pletcher covers a wide variety of ERISA topics. See if you can answer all 5 questions correctly. (hat tip to BenefitsLink)
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From the brilliant mind of Kevin B. Segal of MullinTBG comes this bit of ERISA humor about April Fool’s Day:
Today, the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service released Notice 2008-41, authorizing the creation of a support group dedicated to helping companies avoid imposition of penalties from the inadvertent violation of Internal Revenue Code Section 409A. [...]

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Susan Mangiero over at Pension Risk Matters has posted a letter a pretty good letter to Pension Santa. Susan’s focus is fiduciary matters and risk, so her letter focuses on these topics.
I second Susan’s letter, and add this item to my letter to Pension Santa:

knowledge of, and the requisite guidance to create, [...]

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