Compliance

An updated page on the IRS website shares what records retirement plan sponsors should keep and for how long.

Trends, legislation, regulations and litigation will continue to affect the retirement industry in 2015.

The Cumulative List will primarily be used by single employer individually designed defined contribution plans and single employer individually designed defined benefit plans that are in Cycle E.

The Department of Labor wants to request new industry input and create focus groups about the...

A lawsuit has been filed that some say is the first to cite the Supreme Court case about whether retirement plan fiduciaries have a presumption of prudence for...

Experts from Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP had no shortage of topics to cover in a recent discussion about potential regulatory and legislative actions related to employer-sponsored retirement...

Two updated publications from the IRS discuss the employee plans examination process and appeal procedures.

With acronyms like ADP, ACP, NHCEs, and HCEs, the technicality of 401(k) plan nondiscrimination testing may seem overwhelming.

The ERISA Industry Committee (ERIC) has commented about the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation’s request to obtain information about de-risking moves made by pension plans.

As employers enter the last two years of the preapproved retirement plan restatement cycle, ERISA consultants say restatements are a critical opportunity to realign plan documents and operations.

A federal district court has approved the Department of Labor’s motion to intervene in a 401(k) excessive fee case.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has amended the two safe harbor explanations that can be used to satisfy the requirement that certain information be provided to recipients of...

The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) is publishing a final rule for transferring defined contribution (DC) plan accounts into a defined benefit (DB) plan.

Credit Suisse AG has received temporary approval to continue acting as a qualified professional asset manager (QPAM), after pleading guilty to criminal charges related to client tax evasion.

Reaching $25 million in an individual retirement account (IRA) might sound like a pipedream, but some Americans have managed to do just that.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is hosting a webinar about the definitions of compensation used in retirement plans.

Sometimes, Form 5500 errors can come down to something as simple as a single number. Here are some goofs for retirement plan advisers to keep an eye out...

Retirement plan advisers should be on the lookout for prohibited transactions that may or should be revealed on the Form 5500 filing.

Midterm election results are often interpreted to mean different and contradictory things—but there appears to be some consensus in the retirement industry about the new political landscape in...

The U.S. Supreme Court has denied a request to review an appellate court's decision in a case concerning retirement plan recordkeepers and fees.