What will be the top four regulatory items for financial advisers to deal with in 2012? Josh Cohen and Ben Jones of Russell Investments shared their thoughts.
The Internal Revenue Service issued the 2012 optional standard mileage rates used to calculate the deductible costs of operating an automobile for business, charitable, medical or moving purposes.
The Employee Benefits Security Administration issued Technical Release 2011-03R, revising its interim policy regarding the use of electronic media to satisfy participant-level fee disclosure requirements.
As financial professionals anxiously await the Department of Labor's next version of the fiduciary definition, Bradford Campbell, ERISA attorney and former head of EBSA, offered his insights today during...
As 30 of their Democratic colleagues did last month, 55 House Republicans sent a letter to Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis, thanking her for retracting the proposed changes...
Representatives from the Internal Revenue Service Employee Plans Examination Program discussed common retirement plan errors on a conference call with the media.
A court has ruled that a defined contribution plan must repay a former participant funds that were wrongly transferred to an account of his ex-spouse, even though the plan...
Over 95% of the 1,200 plan sponsors contacted by the Employee Plans Compliance Unit of the IRS voluntarily completed an online 401(k) Compliance Check Questionnaire.
The Department of Labor will recover more than $7 million for former employees of USProtect Corp., a defunct company that provided security services for federal buildings across the...