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April 19, 2013

Liability for 401(k) SPDs

Broc Romanek, CompensationStandards.com

In this podcast, Mike Melbinger of Winston & Strawn discusses the risks of not separating your 401(k) summary plan description from the prospectus, including:

– I have seen you blog on this issue of securities law liability and 401(k) Plan summary plan descriptions, but as a compensation and securities lawyer, what exactly is the issue we need to worry about?
– So what should companies do now?
– I have run this poll on the topic – but what are you seeing – are companies moving to separate the SPD from the prospectus?