Jill Schlesinger

Potential changes could be coming to your workplace retirement plan.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order that would pave the way for riskier assets to be included in 401(k) plans. The order asks the Labor Department (DOL), which oversees workplace retirement plans, along with the Treasury Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission, to determine what regulatory changes need to be made to allow plan participants to invest in certain types of risky alternative assets (“alternatives”) like crypto, private real estate, and private equity inside of their 401(k)-retirement plans.

Currently, there is no law or rule that precludes alternatives from being among the menu of choices inside a plan, though the Biden administration issued warnings about doin

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