New Title Now Available from DeG|PRESS

BOSTON - Sept. 25, 2018 - PRLog -- Retirement Savings Policy: Past, Present, and Future by Michael P. Barry.

Available September 2018
Published by De|G PRESS
ISBN: 978-1-5474-1645-5
Paperback
RRP $59.99/ €51.99/GBP 47.50

"Mike brings to this work his comprehensive experience and consummate technical talent in a beautifully readable book. A treasure."
– Frank Cummings, Former Adjunct Lecturer in Law at UVA Law School, Columbia Law School, NYU Law School, and ALI-ABA

De|G PRESS announces the release of its new book Retirement Savings Policy: Past, Present, and Future. Michael P. Barry has written this comprehensive work for anyone looking to learn more about retirement plans and pensions, 401(k), and how these plans actually work.

Retirement Savings Policy reviews the basic policies that govern retirement savings plans, and their real world application, focusing on the key issues of finance, taxation, fiduciary conduct, and employee choice. The discussion is framed around the three fundamental challenges confronting employers and employees today – the pension legacy, the 401(k) revolution, and the pressure, from policymakers, regulators, opinion leaders, and individuals, for changes that will put retirement security within reach of all Americans.

With more than 40 years' experience in the field, Michael P. Barry provides both a wealth of practical detail – best practices and concrete solutions – and a broad framework for understanding the issues surrounding retirement plans and strategies. The result is a comprehensive introduction to the forces that drive sponsor, participant, and policymaker decision-making.

This is the perfect book for benefits and financial professionals who want a better understanding of the basic rules that govern retirement plan administration but also serves those interested in truly understanding the nuances and issues surrounding retirement plans and policies. The approach is practical, focusing on how US retirement plans actually work, how they are taxed (and not taxed), how they are regulated.

But it is also conceptual, devoting considerable attention to an understanding of why these plans work the way they do. Why regulators and policymakers are so focused on a handful of issues – expanding coverage, reducing fees, fairness. And, at the highest level, what are the problems that we are trying to solve. As such, much of what we discuss will be of interest to a more general reader, who wants a realistic understanding of what is really at stake in current retirement policy debates.

About the Author

Michael P. Barry is President of O3 Plan Advisory Services LLC, which provides retirement plan regulatory analysis targeted at plan sponsors and those who provide services to them. Before founding Plan Advisory Services in 1998, Mike was Managing Director at Bankers Trust and, before that, practiced law in Washington D.C. and New York. Mike writes a regular column for PLANSPONSOR Online, "Barry's Pickings."

About De|G PRESS

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