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To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Last week, the U.S. Department of Labor (the “DOL”) on December 15, 2020 issued a release (the “Release”) finalizing an important new initiative for retirement accounts (“Plans”) that are subject to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”) or Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”). The Release finalizes Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption (“PTCE”) 2020-2, which provides an exemption from ERISA’s and the Code’s prohibited transaction rules for individuals and...

On December 15, 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor (the “DOL”) issued its highly anticipated final prohibited transaction class exemption for fiduciary investment advice (the “Final Exemption”). The Final Exemption, which will be officially designated “Prohibited Transaction Exemption 2020-02,” serves two broad functions. First, in the preamble, the DOL provides its “Final Interpretation” of the five-part test under its 1975 regulation defining who is an investment advice fiduciary under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”) and Section...