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Multiple Employer Plans (MEP)
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DOL’s Final Rule on ARPs: What It Means for the Retirement Industry
The DOL’s newly released final regulation on “Association Retirement Plans” (ARPs) will make it easier for groups and…
DOL Wants Your Input on Open 401k MEPs
Want to get your two cents in to the Feds about Open Multiple Employer Plans (Open MEPs)? The…
What You Need to Know About Association Retirement Plans (Now)
The entire retirement industry has been devising strategies and product ideas in expectation of receiving new guidance from…
Small Businesses (Really) Like 401(k) MEP Concept
The announcement of a new rule from the Department of Labor to make it easier for small businesses…
MEPs on the March—DOL Announces 401k Rule: Outcomes 2019 Conference
On Monday, the U.S. Department of Labor announced a new rule that will make it easier for small…
401k MEP Rule ‘Imminent,’ As White House Presses DOL
The hotly debated SECURE Act is somewhat stuck in Beltway mud, but the administration is moving forward with…
Why MEP ‘One Bad Apple’ Correction Is An Illusion
The Department of Treasury has fulfilled its portion of the directive under Executive Order (EO)13847 by issuing its…
5 Positive Retirement Plan Proposals Currently Circling Washington
What’s this? Legislative policy proposals that might actually help? The Employee Benefit Research Institute likes what it sees…
IRS: One Bad Apple Can’t Spoil a 401k MEP Bunch
One bad apple shouldn’t spoil the whole bunch. That’s the thinking behind the Treasury Department/IRS’s new proposed regulation…
How We Simply ‘Fell Into’ 401ks
Kent Conrad doesn’t think much of the current retirement system, and believes “we’ve sort of fallen into” 401ks…