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Defending ERISA Fiduciaries Against Claims of Failure to Diversify in a World of Multi-Manager Investments | Employee Benefits
Although they are generally lauded for increasing diversification of investments, investment managers and employee benefit plans need to be aware of the potential for ‘‘overlapping’’ and its impact in situations where ‘‘plan assets’’ are invested in multimanager investments and, in particular, fund of funds (‘‘FoF’’ or ‘‘FoFs’’) investment strategies.
Volume II, Issue 3 | September 2012
Welcome to the next issue of CUEd In, our guide to the law and business of employee benefits for credit union executives.
CUEd In: Volume II, Issue 3 – September 2012
Welcome to the next issue of CUEd In, our guide to the law and business of employee benefits for credit union executives. In this issue, we highlight the importance of understanding the impact that career related decisions—such as accepting a promotion, switching credit unions, or volunteering to partake in a voluntary layoff program—may have […]
B&K Benefits Update Newsletter – Special Edition – Summer 2012
Please read the Summer 2012 Special Edited B&K Benefits Update Newsletter here.
B&K Benefits Update Newsletter – Spring 2012
Please read the Spring 2012 B&K Benefits Update Newsletter here.
What does health care look like in 2014 and beyond? | Employment Law
That's exactly the question that Ginger LaChapelle, an Associate in the Employee Benefits Department of Blitman & King, recently addressed in her presentation at the firm's 22nd Annual Labor and Employment Law Seminar. The paper and presentation explained key health reform provisions relating to the establishment of state-run American Health Benefit Exchanges, and the law’s most controversial requirement, the “individual mandate.”
B&K Benefits Update Newsletter – Winter 2012
Read the B&K Update Newsletter here: Newsletter – Winter 2012
October 14, 2011 BNA Insights features article| Employment Law
In the article, entitled "How Gross Takes the Teeth Out of a Proposal For an Employment-Status Discrimination Cause of Action," Michael R. Daum discusses pending congressional legislation to prohibit employers from discriminating against applicants on the basis of their employment status and warns that such a law would be rendered ineffective by the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2009 decision in Gross v. FBL Financial Services.