Expert ERISA attorneys have been eagerly awaiting the Supreme Court’s decision in a case called Kisor v. Wilkie. The complicated ruling issued Wednesday is the most significant of the term for the retirement plan audience.
The proposal includes corrections, clarifications, and improvements to its regulations on Reportable Events, Premium Rates and others.
The lower chamber has voted to block funding for the SEC to implement and enforce Regulation Best Interest.
Women place more importance on advice that fits into their work or personal schedule, as opposed to men who place more importance on advice that alerts them to critical developments in their accounts, a T. Rowe Price survey found.
Auditors "can provide feedback on the effectiveness of, and suggestions for improving, processes and controls in place related to fiduciary responsibilities and efficient and effective plan operations,” said James Haubrock, with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
Anxiety about turning DC plan assets into a “lifetime retirement paycheck” in such a low-rate environment is keeping aging Americans in the workforce—including many who very likely have enough money saved to retire comfortably and don’t want to keep working.
The Mesirow Financial Fiduciary Automation Service Technology provides broker-dealers the same automation and compliance engine that Mesirow uses to service its own 3(21) and 3(38) fiduciary service clients.
Club Vita looks at zip codes and other characteristics of the participants in DB plans to estimate longevity risk.
Forty-two percent don’t even know it is possible to keep assets in a plan once one leaves an employer.
By the time the 5th Circuit vacated the DOL fiduciary rule expansion last year, advisory and brokerage firms had spent many millions of dollars to comply with the rule. Congressional Democrats want to know more about what’s happened since.
Two newly announced acquisitions bring $2 billion in new client assets.
Financial stress is on the rise in all generations, indicating that financial wellness programs are missing the mark, according to PwC. A new survey report from the firm suggests many employers have simply relabeled existing resources as "financial wellness programs."
The affirmation once again shows how influential has been the Supreme Court’s 2014 decision known as Fifth Third v. Dudenhoeffer. It also presents an interpretation of how Fifth Third interacts with another significant SCOTUS decision known as Tibble v. Edison.
A BrightScope/ICI study also found collective investment trusts (CITs) accounted for a larger share of assets in larger plans than smaller plans.
Under the SEC’s final regulations, Form CRS requires less prescribed wording relative to the proposed version, meaning firms may generally use their own wording to address required topics and will have more flexibility to provide information to investors.
