On the recordSeptember 12, 1995
the definition of ETI's, which is the first time to my knowledge that ETI's have ever been legally defined in any of the regulations or in the law, states: Are defined as investments selected for economic benefits they create, in addition to investment return to the employee benefit investor. Now, what my colleagues are doing here is hyping something that is not a part of the prudent man rule at all. That is, investments returns aside from those that will come to the participants and to the beneficiaries of the trust. I do not mean to say that there cannot be incidental benefits to any investment, but you do not spend millions of dollars, as the DOL is concerned, coming up with a new definition and going out and hyping and promoting it and hawking it.
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