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Updates From ICMA-RC

Wayne Wicker, SVP & Chief Investment Officer appears on Bloomberg podcast

FOMC Rate Decision Coverage on Bloomberg

Wayne Wicker, Chief Investment Officer, Vantagepoint Investment Advisers, LLC, recently spoke among a panel of industry experts on Bloomberg Businessweek's podcast where the topic of discussion was the Federal Reserve's recent rate decisions.

Wayne Wicker, SVP & Chief Investment Officer appears on CNBC's
Squawk Box

Global Growth Prospects and the Upcoming U.S. Earnings Season

Wayne Wicker, Chief Investment Officer, Vantagepoint Investment Advisers, LLC, discusses U.S.-China trade, the International Monetary Fund's new forecasts for global growth, and corporate earnings in America with the hosts of CNBC's Squawk Box.

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ICMA-RC Selected as a 2020 FutureEdge 50 Award Winner

December 23, 2019

Recognizing Forward Looking Retirement Saving Experience

SECURE Act Enacted

December 20, 2019

On December 20, 2019, President Trump signed into law a $1.4 trillion spending bill to fund the federal government through the end of its fiscal year (September 30, 2020). Attached to the bill was the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement (SECURE) Act of 2019; the first significant pension reform in a more than a decade.

Proposed Update to Required Minimum Distribution Rules

December 3, 2019

On Nov. 7, 2019, the Department of Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service proposed regulations to update the life expectancy and distribution period tables used to calculated required minimum distributions (RMDs) from retirement plans and IRAs.

Private Alternatives Coming to Vantagepoint’s Target-Date and Target-Risk Funds

November 14, 2019

Vantagepoint has started the process of adding private alternative assets in its target-date and target-risk funds, becoming one of the first funds of their kind to help give defined contribution retirement plans access to private equity, private real estate, and other relatively illiquid investments that historically have not been available in these kinds of funds.

DOL Releases Proposed Electronic Disclosure Safe Harbor

November 14, 2019

On October 23, 2019, the Department of Labor (DOL) released a proposed rule that would create a new voluntary safe harbor to allow employee pension benefit plans to communicate certain plan-required notices and disclosures electronically.