The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has temporarily addressed the problem of discrimination defined benefit (DB) plan sponsors may have due to closed plans.
A new report urges U.S. retirement plan regulators to examine and emulate other countries’ efforts to improve employee spend-down options for post-retirement years.
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case raising fiduciary issues and questions about what constitutes prudent investment decisionmaking within employee stock ownership plans (ESOP).
A group of retirement industry advocacy groups are urging the Treasury Department to ensure same-gender spouse rule changes won't apply retroactively for qualified retirement plans.
The American Society of Pension Professionals and Actuaries (ASPPA) is petitioning regulators for easy-to-apply guidance to add same-gender spouses to qualified retirement plans.
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) updated the expected retirement age table used to compute benefit values for distressed pension plans facing involuntary termination.
Two United States senators are calling on the U.S. Treasury to address nondiscrimination challenges facing employers that enact soft freezes on qualified defined benefit (DB) retirement plans.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released twin recommendations advising Congress to align adviser and broker/dealer fiduciary standards and exact “user fees” from SEC-registered advisers.