One retirement industry CEO argues the recent effort by Congress to remove the ERISA safe harbor protections for state- and city-run retirement plans offered to private-sector workers won’t...
Passage of the CHOICE Act by the House Financial Services Committee could signal a further blow to conflict of interest regulations adopted by the Obama administration.
The latest decision in RJR vs. Tatum comes out of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which has previously made multiple rulings on the long-running and procedurally complicated...
Jamie Fleckner, a partner with Goodwin Proctor LLP, tells PLANADVISER the judge assigned to the case does have an impact on how litigators think about defending the case...
In their lawsuit, the plaintiffs called the Fujitsu plan one of the most expensive in the country and specifically called out the design and implementation of the plan’s...
“The court should compel individual arbitration of [the plaintiff's] claims and, on that basis, dismiss the lawsuit, or stay the litigation pending the outcome of individual arbitration,” the...
A new rule will reduce guaranteed lifetime income from the military’s pension by 20%, but financial advisers are keen in helping service members offset the potential losses.
Before ultimately finding plaintiffs' claims were time-barred, a judge found Putnam's mutual fund fees were reasonable and a comparison to Vanguard funds was "apples to oranges."
The plaintiffs claim the defendants breached their fiduciary duties because a prudent fiduciary would not retain the American Beacon Funds, which were created by American Airlines' parent company,...
Nationwide Adds 3(21) Fiduciary Service from IRON Financial; intellicents to Use Schwab Automated Investment Management Program; Delaware Investments Rebrands; and more.
The lawsuit claimed the defendants breached their fiduciary duties by investing a significant portion of the plans’ assets in risky and high-cost hedge fund and private equity investments...
The lawsuit says disclosures show the proprietary funds used in the DC plan lineup were far more expensive than comparable funds and underperformed their benchmarks.