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      {
        "uri": "/2020/03/20/senate-gop-coronavirus-bill-includes-distribution-provisions-for-retirement-plan-participants/",
        "title": "Senate GOP coronavirus bill includes distribution provisions for retirement plan participants",
        "byline": "Nick Thornton",
        "kicker": "News",
        "prettyDate": "March 20, 2020",
        "timeToRead": "3 minute",
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        ],
        "summary": "Retirement industry advocates, including the American Retirement Association, and individual service providers, lobbied for the changes.",
        "body": null
      },
      {
        "uri": "/2020/03/18/fresh-off-court-victory-calsavers-setting-to-launch-into-eye-of-hurricane-coronavirus/",
        "title": "Fresh off court victory, CalSavers setting to launch into eye of hurricane coronavirus",
        "byline": "Nick Thornton",
        "kicker": "Market Insights",
        "prettyDate": "March 18, 2020",
        "timeToRead": "5 minute",
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        "authors": [
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            "name": "Nick Thornton"
          }
        ],
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        ],
        "summary": "Success is measured by helping workers get access to retirement plans -- whether CalSavers, or in the private sector.",
        "body": null
      },
      {
        "uri": "/2020/03/18/401k-service-providers-adding-call-center-staff-to-help-ease-participant-fears/",
        "title": "401(k) service providers adding call center staff to help ease participant fears",
        "byline": "Nick Thornton",
        "kicker": "News",
        "prettyDate": "March 18, 2020",
        "timeToRead": "4 minute",
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        ],
        "summary": "Coronavirus-fueled market panic prompting up to 8 times the usual call volume for some recordkeepers.",
        "body": null
      },
      {
        "uri": "/2020/03/17/sec-extends-filing-dates-for-form-adv-form-pf-due-to-coronavirus-pandemic/",
        "title": "SEC extends filing dates for Form ADV, Form PF due to coronavirus pandemic",
        "byline": "Nick Thornton",
        "kicker": "News",
        "prettyDate": "March 17, 2020",
        "timeToRead": "4 minute",
        "image": {
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        "authors": [
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        ],
        "kickerNode": [
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        ],
        "summary": "No comment on extension of Form CRS, Reg BI deadline.",
        "body": null
      },
      {
        "uri": "/2020/03/12/calsavers-wins-court-battle-over-erisa-status/",
        "title": "CalSavers wins court battle over ERISA status",
        "byline": "Nick Thornton",
        "kicker": "News",
        "prettyDate": "March 12, 2020",
        "timeToRead": "3 minute",
        "image": {
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          "width": "617",
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        },
        "authors": [
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          }
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        ],
        "summary": "California's state-run IRA program is not an ERISA plan, a district court has ruled.",
        "body": null
      },
      {
        "uri": "/2020/03/11/reasonably-available-alternatives-must-be-vetted-to-comply-with-secs-reg-bi/",
        "title": "'Reasonably available alternatives' must be vetted to comply with SEC's Reg BI",
        "byline": "Nick Thornton",
        "kicker": "Analysis",
        "prettyDate": "March 11, 2020",
        "timeToRead": "5 minute",
        "image": {
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          "width": "616",
          "height": "411"
        },
        "authors": [
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          }
        ],
        "kickerNode": [
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        ],
        "summary": "Technology will be a B-D's 'friend' in complying with Reg BI by July 1 to satisty Care Obligation, rollover recommendation rules.",
        "body": null
      },
      {
        "uri": "/2020/03/10/trump-reportedly-pitches-payroll-tax-holiday-until-elections-meets-bipartisan-resistance/",
        "title": "Trump pitches payroll tax holiday until elections, meets bipartisan resistance",
        "byline": "Nick Thornton",
        "kicker": "News",
        "prettyDate": "March 10, 2020",
        "timeToRead": "4 minute",
        "image": {
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        },
        "authors": [
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          }
        ],
        "kickerNode": [
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        ],
        "summary": "Potentially staggering losses to Social Security coffers?",
        "body": null
      },
      {
        "uri": "/2020/03/06/maryland-lawmakers-axe-bill-that-would-have-taxed-financial-advice/",
        "title": "Maryland lawmakers axe bill that would have taxed financial advice",
        "byline": "Nick Thornton",
        "kicker": "News",
        "prettyDate": "March 06, 2020",
        "timeToRead": "2 minute",
        "image": {
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        },
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        ],
        "kickerNode": [
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        ],
        "summary": "More states are looking to tax previously exempted services like financial, medical, and legal advice, to broaden their tax base,",
        "body": null
      },
      {
        "uri": "/2020/03/03/managed-accounts-can-save-virus-panicked-retirement-savers-from-themselves/",
        "title": "Managed accounts can save virus-panicked retirement savers from themselves",
        "byline": "Nick Thornton",
        "kicker": "Market Insights",
        "prettyDate": "March 03, 2020",
        "timeToRead": "4 minute",
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        },
        "authors": [
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          }
        ],
        "kickerNode": [
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            "sectionName": "Market Insights"
          }
        ],
        "summary": "Coronavirus is causing some 401(k) savers to make ill-advised choices -- but managed accounts offer a built-in safety net courtesy of call center pros.",
        "body": null
      },
      {
        "uri": "/2020/02/28/coronavirus-fears-prompt-401k-trading-spike-despite-improved-outreach-to-savers/",
        "title": "Coronavirus fears prompt 401(k) trading spike despite improved outreach to savers",
        "byline": "Nick Thornton",
        "kicker": "News",
        "prettyDate": "February 28, 2020",
        "timeToRead": "3 minute",
        "image": {
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        "authors": [
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        ],
        "summary": "Are some savers not getting the memo to stay put?",
        "body": null
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