Compliance

The IRS has been accused of mismanagement of its VCP program.

The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation announced an agreement that restores two pension plans to The Renco Group Inc., a private investment holding company based in New York City.

The late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia had a direct (but not necessarily pivotal) role in shaping many of the SCOTUS decisions tracked in recent years by the...

Instructions from the IRS now tell plan sponsors to skip them.

The Employee Benefits Security Administration is giving employers and service providers an opportunity to comment on how it collects and processes information, especially as it pertains to a...

Your DB plan sponsor clients should start reviewing their payment practices now, attorneys tell PLANADVISER.

 

The Department of Labor’s new fiduciary rule will be very hard to reverse once in place—even if Republicans take the White House.

Following a sit-down with one SEC commissioner, CEFEX leadership predicts the regulator will propose new requirements for third-party advisory practice reviews before the close of 2016. 

A federal court has found that RJR proved a prudent fiduciary would have removed Nabisco stock from its 401(k) plan.

Broker/dealers urged in FINRA letter to define and strengthen their firms’ ethical business practices.

The lawsuit also questions Chevron's failure to use a stable value fund, collective trusts or separate accounts.

Officers of Alliance Home Healthcare illegally distributed assets of the company’s profit sharing plan, a DOL lawsuit claims.

Obama is proposing to cap the accumulation into tax-deferred retirement accounts at $3.4 million.

The lawsuit is filed as a class action on behalf of the Arthur J. Gallagher & Company 401(k) plan and all other similarly situated plans.

The IRS proposal would provide guidance about any employer that has withdrawn from the plan and entered into a “make-whole” agreement to provide participant benefits.

A federal judge found the agreement does dictate important aspects about the participant’s benefits under the 401(k) plan.

While initiatives to expand retirement access get support, the DOL’s conflict of interest rule and the encouragement of state-run retirement plans do not.

The newly emerged text of President Obama’s 2017 budget proposal includes hundreds of millions of dollars in proposed funding over the next decade to encourage wider use of...

With the IRS planning to end its determination letter program, retirement plan sponsors will need guidance about what to do.

After seeing their pension risk transfer lawsuits dismissed in both district and circuit court, tens of thousands of former Verizon employees hope SCOTUS will have more sympathy.