Economy
Alternative-asset guidance review directedAdd alternative assets to the retirement-plan conversation
The retirement account has been invited to consider a more complicated menu.
- Executive owner
- Donald J. Trump / Labor Department / Securities and Exchange Commission
- Status
- Alternative-asset guidance review directed
- Due
- Key Labor review within 180 days
- Paying for it
- Retirement-plan administration and participant investments
Entered in the archive 2026-10-16.
ACTIVITY
Record dateBenefits requested the revised investment guidance.
Give people more OPTIONS!
Risk asked which participants would understand the additional fees.
Some very wealthy People have Investments nobody ever tells the little Investor about..... then the little Investor asks the Fee and suddenly everybody speaks very quietly.
The investment menu is expanding faster than the plain-language explanation.
I want very Good Retirement-ing, remember the RISK part too.
PUBLIC RECORD
Executive Order 14330, signed August 7, 2025: Directed review of rules and guidance affecting defined-contribution retirement-plan access to alternative assets and coordination among relevant regulators. It did not require every 401(k) plan to buy cryptocurrency or remove fiduciary obligations.