Compliance

In April the department stated it was considering rescinding the 2022 ESG rule and asked the 5th Circuit to pause...

The hearing, for Daniel Aronowitz as assistant secretary of labor for the Employee Benefits Security Administration, was scheduled by the...

The Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and Treasury sought information and released updated guidance aimed at creating nationwide...

The 2022 compliance assistance bulletin told plan fiduciaries to exercise ‘extreme care’ before adding a cryptocurrency option to a 401(k)...

The DOJ has taken a side in a case accusing BlackRock, State Street and Vanguard of suppressing prices in the...

The legislation would establish an independent inspector general for the agency that administers the retirement plan for more than 7...

An external breach, which occurred last summer, may have exposed retirement plan participants’ personal data, such as Social Security numbers...

Included in House Republicans’ policy package are investment accounts promoting financial security for American children.

Senators introduced legislation that would allow periodic automatic reenrollment in workplace retirement plans for workers who opt out of participating.

Whether non-ERISA 403(b) plans should have access to invest in collective investment trusts was a point of contention during the...

The complaint alleges TIAA breached its fiduciary duties and mismanaged billions of dollars in employee retirement savings by opting for...

The plaintiffs include four current and former employees who intend to represent more than 250,000 plan participants.

The Cigna Group is the latest company accused of mismanaging the forfeited funds in its 401(k) plan, and software company...

The two bills, proposed by Senator Bill Cassidy, aim to strength employee stock ownership plans.

The former Swiss Re employees had accused Empower of charging excessive recordkeeping fees and using participant data to market its...

Although retirement policy is mostly untouched, the bill would repeal section 103(e) of the SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022, that...

For 2026, the IRS defines an HDHP as a health plan with an annual deductible that is not less than...

The May 2 letter to the SEC followed recent concerns expressed by lawmakers over U.S. investments in China, including two...

Several organizations offered support for the legislation, including TIAA and the Insured Retirement Institute.

The Securities and Exchange Commission clarified what applies when a 401(k) plan participant subject to insider trading rules sells company...