Tag: DoL

Once a plan committee is established, the adviser is a vital part of keeping members up to date.

Overly restrictive rules make it difficult for plan sponsors and service providers to distribute plan information electronically, a paper says.

The AB Multi-Manager Select Retirement Funds, a new target-date series from AllianceBernstein, is co-managed with Morningstar Associates.

Lifetime income, service provider process changes and privacy of retirement plan information are just a few things for which plan sponsors need to prepare.

But working with an adviser, auditor, provider and ERISA attorney, sponsors can avoid them.

The Department of Labor filed suit against fiduciaries of a medical corporation’s pension plan for using plan assets for personal expenses, citing multiple violation of the Employee Retirement...

A new report from the Department of Labor suggests the quality of benefit plan audits performed by certified public accountants is lagging, with major deficiencies found in four...

The comment period for the fiduciary proposal is being stretched out for another 15 days, the Department of Labor (DOL) said in a statement.

A federal district court judge has preliminarily approved a settlement in one of the cases challenging a retirement plan’s church plan status.

A group of Republican senators led by Lamar Alexander urged the Department of Labor to give the public more time to weigh in on the fiduciary proposal.

The proposed conflicted investment advice rule from the DOL is designed to protect retirement plan and IRA participants, but experts attending the ASPPA Virtual Conference aren’t sure the...

Tax-qualified retirement plans run by small business owners must comply with ERISA—whether the sponsor is familiar with the landmark legislation or not.

Advisers responding to the recent fiduciary proposal have “distinct and divergent viewpoints about the rule.”

“Top hat” retirement plans aren’t subject to many ERISA requirements, but the unique treatment of the plans under employee benefit and tax law can lead to plan sponsor...

Sixteen industry groups are asking the Department of Labor (DOL) to extend the comment period on the fiduciary proposal.

Making law is akin to making sausage, notes Bob Collie at Russell Investments: It’s a messy process with lots of ingredients, especially in the tax-qualified retirement plan arena.

The DOL’s proposed fiduciary rule is complex and wide-reaching, one experienced ERISA attorney tells PLANADVISER, so the financial industry needs more time to digest the potential implications.

Federal government rulemaking seldom moves quickly, and in the case of the DOL fiduciary rule, observers warn the final impact of the consumer protection regulation remains anyone’s guess.