The text of the pro-plaintiff ruling offers a helpful history lesson about several precedent-setting cases that continue to define the borders of the ERISA litigation landscape.

The Advisor Resiliency Pack suite of services is designed to help advisers grow and enhance client engagement as well as manage their business operations through the effects of COVID-19.

Through September 30, Voya will credit CARES Act-related transaction fees to DC plan participants and offer financial education to Americans.

First the SECURE Act and now the CARES Act have made important changes to the rules for required minimum distributions from individual retirement accounts and 401(k)s.

At least some district courts across the U.S. seem to be willing to allow cases alleging the use of outdated mortality tables in the calculation of nonstandard annuity benefits to proceed to trial.

A new district court decision finds Fidelity has breached its fiduciary duties in the operations of its own retirement plan; importantly, the ‘case stated’ ruling ‘addresses only the question of liability, not causation or loss.’

The March 31 deadline for 403(b) plans has been extended to June 30; the April 30 deadlines for DB plans have been extended to July 31.

Retirement plan professionals who have navigated a severe natural disaster in their region will recognize many of the retirement plan-focused relief provisions to be implemented by Congress.

At one point, the plaintiff was proposing a defendant class of all sponsors of smaller 401(k) plans that entered into program agreements with Nationwide through its Retirement Flexible Advantage Retirement Plans Program.

The lawsuit accuses Nationwide 401(k) plan fiduciaries of not negotiating terms for a fixed-income contract comparable to that for its DB plan for the purpose of increasing its subsidiary's profits.

The retirement plan-focused provisions passed by the Senate last night are among many meant to ease the financial pressures posed by the coronavirus pandemic.