Pooled employer plans represent an opportunity in the defined contribution plan space, although few DC plan advisors are familiar with them. LIMRA’s research found that only about one-third of DC plan ...

Finance companies are expanding their offerings of pooled employer plans, a relatively new 401(k)-style retirement arrangement that allows multiple small businesses and nonprofits to participate in a ...

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It’s a staggering statistic: About 56 million American workers in the private sector lack access to an employer-sponsored retirement plan. It’s no surprise that the retirement system in the United ...

The vote comes after the Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar voted in November to accept variances to Standard 503, allowing schools to request the ability to admit up ...

On July 29, 2025, the Department of Labor (the “DOL”) published limited interpretive guidance regarding pooled employer plans, or “PEPs,” in the Federal Register (the “New Guidance”). Although PEPs ...

Pooled employer plans or PEPs are part of a genre called group plans which started with multiple employer plans or MEPs and include group of plans or GOPs but do not include multiemployer plans used ...

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