Advisory Opinions

Requests for interpretations and other rulings under Title 1 of ERISA are handled by the Office of Regulations and Interpretations under the provisions established by ERISA Procedure 76-1. The office answers inquiries from individuals and organizations in the form of advisory opinions, which apply the law to a specific set of facts, or information letters, which merely call attention to well established principles or interpretations.

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**1975**
AO/ Date/ Reference	Recipient	Description of Request
1975-121 07/01/1975 412	Anonymous	Whether a bonding arrangement made by an insurance agency for the fiduciaries of qualified profit sharing and pension plans administered by an insurance planning agency, the partners of which are the principal shareholders of the insurance agency, qualifies for an prohibited transaction exemption under section 412 of ERISA.
1975-120 06/09/1975 412	Anonymous	Request for a postponement of the bonding requirements under section 412 of ERISA.
1975-12 07/17/1975 3(2)	Anonymous	Whether a profit sharing plan is covered by ERISA.
1975-119 05/21/1975 412	Anonymous	Whether an Impartial Chairman in a collectively bargained welfare and pension plan must be bonded under section 412 of ERISA.
1975-117 05/06/1975 412	Anonymous	What is the minimum number of employees under a profit sharing plan before fiduciaries are required to be bonded under the provisions ERISA.
1975-111 09/26/1975 407	Anonymous	Whether certain parcels of real property owned by the defined benefit plans sponsored by an employer constitute "qualifying employer real property" under section 407(d)(4) of ERISA.
1975-108 03/05/1975	Anonymous	Whether loans from a pension plan to employees of the employer who established the plan are prohibited under ERISA.
1975-106 02/25/1975	Anonymous	Whether the rendering of mere advice by a broker-dealer to a plan makes the broker-dealer an investment adviser or a person exercising discretionary authority or control over plan assets.
1975-105 11/20/1975 406	anonymous	Legality of a proposed loan by a plan to a physician employee shareholder who is also a participant, party in interest, and trustee of the plan under ERISA.
1975-103 10/22/1975 406	Anonymous	Whether a proposed transaction between a Savings and Loan Association and the Pension Trust of Southern California would violate section 406 of ERISA.