One retirement industry CEO argues the recent effort by Congress to remove the ERISA safe harbor protections for state- and city-run retirement plans offered to private-sector workers won’t...
Passage of the CHOICE Act by the House Financial Services Committee could signal a further blow to conflict of interest regulations adopted by the Obama administration.
As a new leader takes the helm at the SEC, advisers wonder whether the regulator’s recent focus on retirement industry conflicts of interest will be relaxed.
The Senate has passed legislation mirroring House-approved measures that will eliminate the Obama-era DOL rules regarding exempting state- and municipality-run retirement plans from ERISA.
The FSR suggests the Trump administration should support policies that will promote retirement savings and enable financial services providers to better meet the long-term needs of Americans in...
The latest decision in RJR vs. Tatum comes out of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which has previously made multiple rulings on the long-running and procedurally complicated...
The newly confirmed Secretary of Labor, Alexander Acosta, will steer from the top the effort to either overturn or leave in place the Obama-era fiduciary rule and other...
The Shrinking Emergency Account Losses (SEAL) Act would allow employees to continue to contribute to their DC plans during the six months following a hardship withdrawal, among other...