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Title 29LaborPart / Section
Subtitle BRegulations Relating to Labor100 – 4999
Chapter XXVEmployee Benefits Security Administration, Department of Labor2500 – 2599
Subchapter FFiduciary Responsibility Under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 19742550
Part 2550Rules and Regulations for Fiduciary Responsibility2550.401c-1 – 2550.412-1
§ 2550.401c-1Definition of “plan assets”—insurance company general accounts.
§ 2550.403a-1Establishment of trust.
§ 2550.403b-1Exemptions from trust requirement.
§ 2550.404a-1Investment duties.
§ 2550.404a-2Safe harbor for automatic rollovers to individual retirement plans.
§ 2550.404a-3Safe harbor for distributions from terminated individual account plans.
§ 2550.404a-4Selection of annuity providers—safe harbor for individual account plans.
§ 2550.404a-5Fiduciary requirements for disclosure in participant-directed individual account plans.
§ 2550.404b-1Maintenance of the indicia of ownership of plan assets outside the jurisdiction of the district courts of the United States.
§ 2550.404c-1ERISA section 404(c) plans.
§ 2550.404c-5Fiduciary relief for investments in qualified default investment alternatives.
§ 2550.407a-1General rule for the acquisition and holding of employer securities and employer real property.
§ 2550.407a-2Limitation with respect to the acquisition of qualifying employer securities and qualifying employer real property.
§ 2550.407d-5Definition of the term “qualifying employer security”.
§ 2550.407d-6Definition of the term “employee stock ownership plan”.
§ 2550.408b-1General statutory exemption for loans to plan participants and beneficiaries who are parties in interest with respect to the plan.
§ 2550.408b-2General statutory exemption for services or office space.
§ 2550.408b-3Loans to Employee Stock Ownership Plans.
§ 2550.408b-4Statutory exemption for investments in deposits of banks or similar financial institutions.
§ 2550.408b-6Statutory exemption for ancillary services by a bank or similar financial institution.
§ 2550.408b-19Statutory exemption for cross-trading of securities.
§ 2550.408c-2Compensation for services.
§ 2550.408eStatutory exemption for acquisition or sale of qualifying employer securities and for acquisition, sale, or lease of qualifying employer real property.
§ 2550.408g-1Investment advice—participants and beneficiaries.
§ 2550.408g-2Investment advice—fiduciary election.
§ 2550.412-1Temporary bonding requirements.
Appendix A to Part 2550
Model Notice for Section 404a-3