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Senate Bill Would Restrict FRTIB Investments in Entity List Companies

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., introduced a bill to prevent the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board from potentially investing federal civil servants’ retirement savings in companies on the Entity List. The Thrift Savings Plan Fiduciary Security Act would modify the FRTIB's…

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duties by “incorporating a duty to not harm U.S. national security,” Rubio said June 10. Under the legislation, the board would not be allowed to invest in companies on the Commerce Department’s Entity List or companies designated by the Treasury Department as Chinese military companies. “The Board and their friends on Wall Street will get away with using American servicemembers’ own savings to fund threats to U.S. national security if the fiduciary duties binding these money managers only focus on short-term financial value,” Rubio said. “My legislation would update the Board’s fiduciary duty to more accurately reflect the interests of the TSP’s beneficiaries, rather than the financial interests of Wall Street.”