Last year, I did a top ten countdown of the ten most popular posts on this blog in 2024, inspired by how radio DJs in my youth would count down the top 100 songs of the year to close out the year. It was a lot of fun and people seemed to enjoy it
Five Favorites for Friday
For this week’s Five Favorites for Friday, I have a full stocking of gifts (too early for Xmas allusions? Maybe, but I was in New York for work and saw the Rockefeller Center Tree, which inspired that lede). Let’s get right into opening them up (and yes, I will probably beat that gag to death
Plan Sponsor and Fiduciary 2.0: Avoiding Brawls in the Parlor and Roving Bands of Plaintiffs’ Lawyers
Financial expert turned professional writer Susan Mangiero has a new article out on the issue of adding alternative investments to 401(k) plans. It provides an excellent summary of the issues and is particularly helpful if you are new to the topic – it will get you up to speed quickly.
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Five Favorites for Friday
- A few years back, I first chaired
Five Favorites for Friday
This week, I cheated. I have known since Tuesday that I wasn’t going to have time to either blog or post on LinkedIn this week on even a small portion of the articles, ideas, podcasts and presentations that were crossing my desk and catching my eye. So I started writing this week’s Five Favorites for
Five Favorites for Friday
I really like a good theme. I can’t help it – it’s the trial lawyer in me. Frankly, I not only like a good theme in an opening and closing at trial, but in an oral argument on appeal or in an appeal brief. Themes help tremendously with communication, particularly in litigation.
So it won’t
Five Favorites for Friday
As I discussed in this earlier post just last Friday, I am now running a series of posts, each to be published on Friday, covering five articles of interest that I didn’t have time to write about – or write enough about – during the week just ending. This past week was busy and full
Five Favorites for Friday
I am launching a new series of posts on the blog, starting today, listing five topics from the week just ended that are worth paying attention to, but which any busy person might have missed during the preceding week. For each, I will include a link or two if you want to read more deeply
Best Practices for ERISA Plan Sponsors and Fiduciaries in a Changing World: A Cheat Sheet for Deciding Whether to Add Private Equity or Other Alternative Investments to Plans
In earlier posts in my Plan Sponsor and Fiduciary 2.0 series I promised to provide a cheat sheet for fiduciaries confronting the push to add private equity and other alternative assets to 401(k) plans. Here it is, with a focus on private equity assets, because that is where most of the initial action currently is
What the Ninth Circuit’s Decision in Intel Tells Us About the Fiduciary Risks of Adding Private Equity Options to 401(k) Plans
Many commentators are suggesting that the recent executive order and the directive for regulatory action towards adding private equity and other alternative assets to 401(k) plans does not mean that those assets are destined to end up in 401(k) plans. But personally, I think that belief is almost certainly naïve – particularly with regard to