New Retirement Law Giving Benefits Managers Headaches

The ink from the President’s signature was barely dry on last year’s SECURE Act before many of its provisions went into effect, forcing companies to change the way they manage their employees’ retirement accounts.   Many of these companies are turning to people like Veena Murthy, a principal at the accounting firm Crowe, LLP, who helped craft the SECURE Act in her previous job as a counsel at Congress’ Joint Committee on Taxation.   Bloomberg Law’s Warren Rojas spoke with Murthy about some of the changes the SECURE Act wrought and what benefits managers should be doing about them.