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Benefits Practice Resource Center™

Product Code: BPRC25
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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:

  • Simplify your research with news, analysis, and primary source materials expertly organized into specific benefits practice topic areas, and search across the Resource Center’s unrivaled database of authoritative content quickly and easily with intuitive, user-friendly tools. 
  • 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 our extensive network of reporters and correspondents across the United States.
  • 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 unique series of BNA Insight articles and videos, featuring expert analysis and insider perspectives from the industry’s foremost practitioners and thought leaders.
  • Inform your decision making with annotated source material and essential, transactional guidance from experts in the field, including Compensation Planning and Corporate Practice Portfolios, and treatises like the Section 409A Handbook, and Erisa: The Law and the Code.
  • Reinforce best practices and avoid costly penalties with our extensive suite of benefits practitioner-created practice tools, including a Disclosure Compliance Calendar, due diligence checklists, sample client letters, and exclusive voluntary compliance summaries detailing arrangements between the Internal Revenue Service and corrections to plan administrative breaches.
  • Find unique solutions to your most challenging research problems and practical scholarship in Bloomberg BNA’s exclusive and time-saving Reference Guides—Benefits Guide: Basics, Benefits Practitioners’ Strategy Guide, Health Care Reform Adviser™, and Executive & Director Compensation Reference Guide.
  • Track the implementation of health reform legislation using the annotated timeline and compliance calendar in the Affordable Care Act Implementation Monitor.
  • Work smarter with 68 additional federal interactive forms to be filed with the IRS and PBGC, and monitor ERISA cases before the Supreme Court using the new Supreme Court Docket Watch Calendar.

 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.

 

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
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