Tag: EBSA

The American Society of Pension Professionals and Actuaries (ASPPA) and the National Association of Independent Retirement Plan Advisors (NAIRPA) suggested a few additions and modifications to target-date fund disclosure...

The Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) announced an extension of the comment period on its proposal to update the definition of fiduciary.

In a live Web chat discussing the Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration’s (EBSA) Semiannual Regulatory Agenda, Assistant Secretary of Labor Phyllis C. Borzi said the Agency will...

A review of the Form 5500 filings from 2008 confirms what even the most casual pension observer knows.

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) has announced a March 2011 hearing on a proposed rule changing the scope of the term “fiduciary.”

Gary L. Merritt, vice president of Bemcore Inc. of Dayton, Ohio, was sentenced by a federal court to five years’ probation and ordered to restore $186,070 to the...

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration announced that the owner of Philadelphia Pension Planning Corp. has been sentenced for making a false statement in a...

Federal regulators on Monday released a long-awaited rule to require more disclosures about target-date funds.

Thanksgiving has been called a “uniquely American” holiday, and one on which, IMHO, it is fitting to reflect on all for which we have to...

A federal indictment unsealed this week in the District of Minnesota alleges that a 62-year-old New Prague, Minnesota man embezzled approximately $642,166 from his company’s employee benefit...

The U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) announced a series of enforcement actions to protect more than $7 million for workers in retirement plans or...

The former CEO of Leading Technology Services Corp. (LTS) was sentenced to prison and ordered to provide $57k in restitution to the company’s 401(k) plan participants.

The morning after last week’s mid-term elections, a plan sponsor friend of mine called me up and asked me what I thought it all meant.

A U.S. District Court jury found the former owner of a plumbing company in Texas guilty of embezzling from its 401(k) plan.

Last week the Labor Department issued a proposal that would, by its reckoning, provide the first update to the definition of an ERISA fiduciary since...

The former Assistant Secretary of the Department of Labor’s (DoL) Employee Benefit Security Administration (EBSA) said the fiduciary definition proposal by the DoL is addressing issues already addressed...

In a conference call with the media, Phyllis C. Borzi, Assistant Secretary of Labor at the Department of Labor, described the current fiduciary guidelines as being “arcane.”

Last week, the Department of Labor reissued its proposed regulation on participant fee disclosure. 

An audit report claims the Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) could do more to protect retirement plan assets from conflicts of interest.

Forty-five companies and interest groups representing the retirement industry testified before the Department of Labor (DoL) and the U.S. Treasury yesterday and today to discuss lifetime income...