Employee Benefits Security Administration February 21, 2024 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

This document provides notice of the pendency before the Department of Labor (the Department) of a proposed individual exemption from certain of the prohibited transaction restrictions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA or the Act). This proposed exemption would permit certain qualified professional asset managers within the corporate family of Deutsche Bank AG (Deutsche Bank), including DWS Investment Management Americas Inc. (DIMA or the Applicant), and certain current and future affiliates of Deutsche Bank (each a DB QPAM), to continue to rely on the class exemptive relief granted in Prohibited Transaction Exemption (PTE) 84-14 (PTE 84-14, or the QPAM Exemption), notwithstanding the 2017 criminal conviction of DB Group Services (UK) Limited (DB Group Services).