Five Favorites for Friday

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I really enjoyed writing this week’s Five Favorites for Friday post. It brought me down the nostalgia trail all the way back to my days defending insurance companies against LTD claims and then routed me back to the future with stories about the latest class action theories against plan fiduciaries and the future of benefit…

An embarrassment of riches, as the saying goes. That’s what the avalanche of excellent stories, publications, podcasts, YouTube videos and posts about ERISA, litigation and insurance issues looked like to me this week.

But for my own purposes (namely having time to do my work), this weekly post is limited to five of them, so…

It’s hard to prevent AI from becoming the theme of any end of the week roundup of the news, and that is true here as well to some extent, particularly with regard to the potential risks that AI poses for employers who offer benefit plans. However, I have managed to sneak in some stories about…

Last week’s Five Favorites for Friday post ran a little heavy, with a focus on five different issues and articles concerning the Department of Labor’s new proposed regulation intended to somehow reduce class action litigation and increase participants’ exposure to alternative investments all at the same time. That seems like a trick worthy of Penn…

I am going with a special edition of the Five Favorites post this week, solely covering five stories about the Department of Labor’s new proposed regulation addressing the issue of adding alternative assets, such as private equity and crypto, to the investments offered in 401(k) plans. For each one, I have included my own questions…