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Benefits Practice Resource Center™

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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.

 

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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