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ERISA 12.21.2021

Housekeeping Time: Tips for Plan Sponsors

You are not alone if you find yourself cloudy on your fiduciary obligations as a plan sponsor. Retirement industry executives observe that very few plan sponsors deeply understand their fiduciary duties or how to protect…
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Housekeeping Time: Tips for Plan Sponsors
Contract Surety 12.21.2021

Largest Soccer Stadium In the USA?

Largest Soccer Stadium In the USA? In May 2022, the largest soccer stadium in North America is slated to open in Nashville, Tennessee, just in the nick of time for the Nashville’s Soccer Club to…
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Largest Soccer Stadium In the USA?
Contract Surety 12.21.2021

Making Tracks In Chicago

  Toot, toot! The recent completion of a  bypass structure on the Chicago “L” system, marks the completion of a significant part of the overhaul on the long-beleaguered Red and Purple lines.  Breaking Up a…
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Making Tracks In Chicago
Court Bonds 12.16.2021

What Exactly Is a Trust?

  Whether you are up to your elbows in estate planning, or just trying to figure out how to get started, the terminology can get a bit fuzzy, hard to digest and keep straight. Short…
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What Exactly Is a Trust?
Court Bonds 12.16.2021

Disrupting Estate Planning: Wealthtech?

  How will $68 trillion in wealth be passed along to Millennials and Generation X over the next twenty-five years? Wealthtech! That’s the disruption experts say is underway as legal, financial and tech innovators work…
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Disrupting Estate Planning: Wealthtech?
Contract Surety 12.16.2021

Dam Safety?

  At least 15,600 of the country’s 91,000 dams are classified as “high-hazard” structures. If they fail, the potential for loss of life and property damage is high. Though insufficient to address all the problems—and…
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Dam Safety?
Contract Surety 12.16.2021

Infrastructure: What’s Next?

  Along with tremendous opportunity, infrastructure investments in the United States and around the world are anticipated to exacerbate the labor shortage and set off new risks as well. Industry excerpts share their predictions. What…
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Infrastructure: What’s Next?
ERISA 12.15.2021

Pandemic’s Impact on Retirement Saving?

  As 2021 ends, new insights into how the pandemic has impacted retirement savings are emerging. A study by recordkeeper Empower Retirement provides insights based on a study with about 4 million retirement plan participants….
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Pandemic’s Impact on Retirement Saving?
ERISA 12.15.2021

Challenging Times for Plan Sponsors

  The storm of lawsuits alleging violation of Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) fiduciary duties continues to push plan sponsors into settlement negotiations. Though costly, settling before trial frequently ends up becoming more appealing…
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Challenging Times for Plan Sponsors