Tag: Rollover

Ongoing fiduciary responsibility and spending money on former employees are two reasons to consider amending a plan to include automated rollovers, Millennium Trust says.

The GAO recommends an alternative to rolling over small retirement plan balances to individual retirement accounts...

The Internal Revenue Service issued guidance clarifying the impact a 2014 individual retirement account (IRA) rollover has on the pending one-per-year limit imposed on tax-free rollovers.

Some retirement plan provisions can create headaches for plan sponsors.

The average retirement plan participant’s decision to leave 401(k) assets in-plan or actuate a distribution when leaving an employer often hinges on whether they are retiring or taking...

Millennium Trust Company is offering an automated e-signature capability for its service agreement process.

The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) recently proposed rules about the treatment of rollovers from defined contribution (DC) plans to defined benefit plans (DB).

The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) outlined a proposal it says makes it easier for participants in defined contribution (DC) plans to get higher returns and get lifetime...

The head of retirement at J.P. Morgan Asset Management says his firm is seeing considerable, yet largely unmet demand for guidance about withdrawals and spending in retirement.

One of the biggest mysteries haunting the industry is the impact of the revised fiduciary rule on investment product marketing for IRA rollovers.

Corporate employers have largely favored lump sum offerings as a means to settle pension liabilities, but changing market conditions could buck the trend this year.

How participants deal with their 401(k) assets when they leave a company is under more scrutiny from FINRA, but retirement plan advisers are less likely to be affected...

Participants tend to stay in-plan for a time after retirement, research shows, and may need help deciding how to preserve and maximize their account balance.

Reviewing firm practices for recommending and marketing individual retirement account (IRA) rollover services will be a 2014 priority for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA).

Financial services and asset management firm DST reached an agreement to bring its retirement income clearing calculator (RICC) services to Prudential Retirement clients.

The Principal Financial Group is offering services with eSignature capabilities to better streamline the transfer from one retirement plan provider to another.

Research from the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) reveals that more employees are preserving their retirement savings as they change jobs.

Updates to the Department of Labor’s (DOL) fiduciary definition could hinder financial advisers’ efforts to target retirement plan clients for individual retirement account (IRA) rollovers.

The type of adviser you are—fiduciary or nonfiduciary—dictates your business model, said Brad Campbell, counsel in Drinker Biddle & Reath’s Washington, D.C., office and speaker at the PLANADVISER...

A majority of advisers surveyed (79%) said the strictest fiduciary standard should apply to rollovers of retirement accounts.