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        "uri": "/2024/04/15/controversial-new-dol-fiduciary-rule-coming-soon-as-white-house-office-wraps-up-review-411-31755/",
        "title": "Controversial New DOL Fiduciary Rule Coming Soon",
        "byline": "Scott Wooldridge",
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        "prettyDate": "April 15, 2024",
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        "summary": "The OMB has concluded its review of the DOL's new Retirement Security Rule, indicating that the controversial rule will be finalized sometime this spring.",
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        "uri": "/2024/03/25/no-matter-the-risks-more-employers-are-choosing-self-funded-plans-411-31618/",
        "title": "No Matter the Risks, More Employers Are Choosing Self-funded Plans",
        "byline": "Scott Wooldridge",
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        "prettyDate": "March 25, 2024",
        "timeToRead": "4 minute",
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        "summary": "Employers generally lack market power to effectively negotiate lower healthcare prices. They need to critically assess whether self-funding will help their bottom line.",
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        "uri": "/2024/02/06/remote-work-roles-dropped-25-since-2021-employees-pushing-rto-mandates-411-31289/",
        "title": "Remote-Work Roles Have Dropped 25% Since 2021",
        "byline": "Scott Wooldridge",
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        "prettyDate": "February 06, 2024",
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        "summary": "Only 11% of the workforce in the U.S. worked remotely full-time in 2023.",
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        "uri": "/2024/01/25/dol-proposes-new-auto-portability-regulations-for-job-changers-411-31223/",
        "title": "DOL Proposes New 401(k) 'Auto-Portability' Regulations for Job Changers",
        "byline": "Scott Wooldridge",
        "kicker": "News",
        "prettyDate": "January 25, 2024",
        "timeToRead": "3 minute",
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        "summary": "To stop the \"leakage\" of retirement cash-outs when employees switch jobs, the DOL proposes new rules aimed at expanding auto-portability transactions.",
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        "uri": "/2023/12/18/unitedhealth-cfo-named-in-erisa-lawsuit-over-underperforming-401k-funds-411-31043/",
        "title": "UnitedHealth CFO Named in ERISA Lawsuit over 'Underperforming' 401(k)",
        "byline": "Scott Wooldridge",
        "kicker": "News",
        "prettyDate": "December 18, 2023",
        "timeToRead": "5 minute",
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        "summary": "The lawsuit alleges that CFO John Rex interfered, for \"commercial\" reasons, with a decision by the company's investment committee to drop a set of target-date funds.",
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        "uri": "/2023/12/04/ibm-just-flipped-the-script-are-companies-now-bringing-back-pensions-411-30954/",
        "title": "IBM Just Flipped the Script: Are Companies Now Going to Bring Back Pensions?",
        "byline": "Scott Wooldridge",
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        "prettyDate": "December 04, 2023",
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        "summary": "IBM's recent announcement that it is switching to a \"hybrid\" model of defined-benefit plan could make the case that bringing back a modern take on the classic retirement benefit could support retention in a tight labor market.",
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        "uri": "/2023/11/28/pbgcs-new-report-shows-surplus-feds-should-lower-plan-premiums-say-employers-411-30932/",
        "title": "PBGC's Report Shows Surplus: Should Plan Premiums Be Lowered?",
        "byline": "Scott Wooldridge",
        "kicker": "News",
        "prettyDate": "November 28, 2023",
        "timeToRead": "4 minute",
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        "summary": "The ERISA Industry Committee, which represents the largest employers in the U.S., is calling on Congress to re-examine the premiums paid by companies that sponsor defined-benefit plans.",
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        "uri": "/2023/10/13/general-electric-will-pay-61m-in-largest-ever-401k-mismanagement-suit-411-30730/",
        "title": "General Electric will pay $61 Million in 'Largest Ever' 401(k) Mismanagement Suit",
        "byline": "Scott Wooldridge",
        "kicker": "News",
        "prettyDate": "October 13, 2023",
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        "summary": "After 6 years of litigation, GE will settle the lawsuit—the largest-ever ERISA case alleging retirement plan mismanagement—which claimed underperforming funds were the only actively managed options available to participants.",
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        "uri": "/2023/10/10/remote-work-tech-continues-to-evolve-but-tech-companies-push-rto-mandates-411-30713/",
        "title": "Remote Work Tech Continues to Evolve, Even as Tech Companies Push RTO Mandates",
        "byline": "Scott Wooldridge",
        "kicker": "Analysis",
        "prettyDate": "October 10, 2023",
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        "summary": "Researchers anticipate steady or slowly rising work-from-home rates over the next several years.",
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        "uri": "/2023/09/13/report-finds-conditions-favorable-for-the-growth-of-unions-411-30511/",
        "title": "Report Finds Conditions Favorable for the Growth of Unions",
        "byline": "Scott Wooldridge",
        "kicker": "Analysis",
        "prettyDate": "September 13, 2023",
        "timeToRead": "4 minute",
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        "summary": "A record-high 61% of survey respondents think unions help, rather than hurt, the U.S. economy.",
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