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What this service is:
Bloomberg BNA’s Benefits Practice Resource Center™ is the industry’s leading source for pension and benefits and executive compensation research, combining news, case law, legal analysis, primary sources, and practice tools in one site. This comprehensive, searchable web platform integrates a broad selection of authoritative, practice-oriented resources together to enhance your research capabilities and improve your productivity.
What it helps you do:
Streamline your research with news, analysis, and primary source materials expertly organized on an intuitively designed platform that helps you save valuable time and resources.
Pinpoint the specific information you need using the Resource Center’s intelligent organizational structure, which separates the site’s content into specific benefits practice areas searchable by convenient topic tabs.
Stay up to date on the latest news and developments with Bloomberg BNA’s respected Pension & Benefits Daily™ and Pension & Benefits Reporter™ notification services, offering authoritative coverage from BNA’s extensive network of reporters and correspondents across the U.S.
Access full-text decisions of the most significant benefits law and executive compensation cases and an extensive collection of searchable regulatory and agency documents and legal statutes for a clear understanding of the legal and analytic framework underpinning the field of benefits practice.
Know the implications of key benefits practice and executive compensation developments with BNA Insights’ unique series of articles and videos, featuring expert analysis and insider perspectives from the industry’s foremost practitioners and thought leaders.
Inform your decision making with essential, results-oriented guidance from experts in the field, including exclusive Compensation Planning and Corporate Practice Portfolios and treatises—including theSection 409A Handbook.
Reinforce best practices with our extensive suite of benefits practitioner-created practice tools, including compliance and due diligence checklists, sample client letters, and voluntary compliance summaries detailing arrangements between federal agencies and corrections to plan administrative breaches.
Find unique solutions to your most challenging research problems and practical scholarship in Bloomberg BNA’s exclusive Reference Guides—Benefits Guide: Basics, Benefits Practitioners’ Strategy Guide, and Bloomberg BNA’s Executive & Director Compensation Reference Guide.
Search across the Resource Center’s unrivaled database of expert content quickly and easily with intuitive, user-friendly tools.
Product Structure
Reference: analysis, research, and primary source content
Notification: daily report providing news and developments
Formats and Frequency
The Resource Center is updated continually. Pension & Benefits Daily™ e-mail updates are sent out daily, plus latest development e-mails as important news breaks.
Major Topics Covered
Pensions & Retirement
Cash balance & hybrid pension plans
Defined benefit plans
Defined contribution plans
Determination letter program
Disclosure to participants
Employee stock ownership plans
Fiduciary duty & prohibited transactions
Individual retirement accounts
Investments
Multi-employer plans
Pension plan administration
Pension reform
Plan documents
Plan fees
Plan termination
Plans of tax-exempt and governmental organizations
Qualified retirement plans
Reporting requirements
Section 401(k) plans
Section 403(b)
Specialized qualified plans: target benefit, age-weighted
Summary plan descriptions
Health Benefits
Cafeteria plans
COBRA health care continuation coverage
Consumer-drive health plans
Flexible savings accounts, medical
Health care costs
Health care reform
Health plan design
Mental health & substance abuse benefits
Portability
Prescription drug benefits
Privacy
Reporting & disclosure
Retiree health plans
State benefit mandates
Fringe & Welfare Benefits
Adoption assistance
Disability benefits
Domestic partner benefits
Family & medical leave benefits
Life insurance
Military leave
Paid leave
Sick leave
State family & medical leave benefits
Tax code Section 132 Fringe Benefits
Transportation benefits
Voluntary benefits
Working condition fringe benefits
Compliance & Enforcement
DOL enforcement programs
DOL voluntary fiduciary correction program
Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System
Fiduciaries
IRS enforcement programs
PBGC enforcement programs
Penalties
Plan assets
Plan audits
Plan investigations
Voluntary compliance
Litigation
Class actions
Discrimination
Employer stock
ERISA litigation
Investments
Plan disqualification
Plan documents
Plan fees
Preemption
Remedies
Stock drop lawsuits
Executive Compensation
Boards of directors
Compensation committees
Contract law
Employee benefit plans
Executive life insurance benefits
Executive pay disclosure
Fiduciary responsibility
Incentive stock plans
Independent directors
Litigation
Mergers & acquisitions
Negotiating employment contracts
Nonqualified deferred compensation
Nonstatutory stock options
Perquisites
Plan sponsors, trustees
Rabbi trusts
Restricted stock
Section 409A
Section 457(f)
Securities law
SERPs
Stock options
Tax law