Compliance

5 Point 401k Cyber Protection Plan for Fiduciaries

Breaches hit fast. Fiduciaries must be ready to act. A documented incident response plan—including who to notify, how to contain the breach, and when to report it—is vital for 401k cyber protection. It demonstrates prudence and minimizes chaos.

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401k Cybersecurity Compliance Creates These New ERISA Duties

Fiduciaries can no longer afford to treat cybersecurity as an IT department concern alone. In a world where digital breaches can wipe out savings, destroy trust, and invite costly lawsuits, cybersecurity has become inseparable from prudent plan management—and at least an implied fiduciary duty under ERISA.

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401k AI Fiduciary Traps Spark ERISA Questions

401k AI fiduciary traps

AI fiduciary traps refer to compliance risks arising from inaccurate, biased, or undocumented AI outputs in 401k plan administration. Do you think the tort bar is salivating over this, waiting for that inevitable misstep?

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How Efficiency Shapes 401k Plan Administration

The promise of automation glitters like a golden ticket, but it’s not without its shadows.

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How SECURE 3.0 Could Reshape the 401k Fiduciary Regulatory Landscape—and Why That’s a Good Thing

The blend of traditional and modern retirement plan types could evolve further with SECURE 3.0.

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Social Security Reform Requires A Dual-Track Approach for Retirees and Future Workers

Proposals focus on recalibrating the program’s benefit formulas and exploring new contribution models to secure future solvency. Proponents argue that modernizing these aspects will help the program adapt to longer life spans and changing economic conditions without sacrificing current commitments.

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Corporate Tax Incentives Congress Can Add To Encourage Greater Retirement Savings

If you look at headlines in the retirement industry trade press, rarely does a week go by when you don’t see an article lamenting the low retirement savings numbers. How do we change this?

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Will Extending Tax Cuts Cost Retirement Savers?

Ironically, while some see lowering the savings limit as politically palatable because it impacts only a small segment of the population, that same fact reduces the effect of such a policy shift.

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