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US Labor Department has ‘grave concerns’ about Fidelity’s bitcoin pension plan

Department criticises Fidelity’s plan to put bitcoin on 401(k) menu

Labor Department officials believe Fidelity Investments’s plan to allow investors to put bitcoin in their 401(k) accounts risks the retirement security of Americans, a senior administrator said.

“We have grave concerns with what Fidelity has done,” Ali Khawar, acting assistant secretary of the Employee Benefits Security Administration, said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal.

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