Tag: ERISA

An analysis published recently in the Benefits Law Journal guides plan officials through the process of building a fiduciary framework for selecting lifetime income options.

A survey of sponsors of many different types of defined contribution (DC) retirement plans finds not all are following plan design and compliance best practices.

Annual filings always bring a swirl of activity, and July 31 is no different. It also brings a cloud of confusion for plan sponsors, according to Form 5500...

The Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee advanced a bill seeking to better define rules for protecting pension assets when companies downsize or close.

Stephen Rosenberg, an Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) and labor law litigator, has joined The Wagner Law Group.

Choosing the right share class needs careful consideration as the Department of Labor (DOL) is paying more attention to investment menu options.

Several proposed tax reforms would restructure how retirement vehicles are taxed and could negatively impact retirement plans in a number of ways.

Retirement plan sponsors and advisers should become familiar with laws covering employees who have served, or are serving, in the military to ensure compliance with plan administration rules,...

About 30 investment firms and other parties responded to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s latest call for comments about a still-pending 2010 proposal to strengthen target-date fund disclosures.

“You can’t guarantee yourself a win,” says employee benefits lawyer David Weiner, describing claims appeals and litigation involving missing retirement plan participants, “but you can guarantee a loss.”

Now that the White House has taken a hand in the redrafting process, it’s anyone’s guess whether the Department of Labor (DOL) will come out with a proposal...

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has moved back the date of a phone forum on same-gender couples and retirement plans to July 17.

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is recommending that regulators consider modifying Form 5500 plan investment and service provider fee information.

A lot can be learned about retirement plan investor behavior from the simplest of actions, according to a Putnam Investments analysis.

Whether a target-date fund (TDF) series is considered “to” or “through” retirement is not the appropriate basis for determining its peers for comparison, contends Cammack Retirement Group.

When it comes to retirement plan fees, recent regulatory changes and litigation have highlighted the importance of plan sponsors and fiduciaries ensuring that such fees are reasonable.

The U.S. Supreme Court this week ruled employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) fiduciaries are not entitled to a presumption of prudence for keeping company stock in the plans,...

The U.S. Supreme Court has decided fiduciaries of employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) are not entitled to any special presumption of prudence under the Employee Retirement Income Security...

A new study of 401(k) plans shows that more than 50,000 of them failed nondiscrimination testing for the 2012 plan year.

The Department of Labor’s (DOL) ERISA Advisory Council is examining practices for outsourcing employee benefit plan services.