Compliance

The agency will post a notice about what's new for practitioners in January.

The list of changes in plan qualification requirements is used by retirement plan sponsors and practitioners submitting determination letter applications for their plan documents.

In the end, none of the various proposals moving in Congress around the omnibus appropriation budget deal regarding the fiduciary rule were included. 

Questions about compliance are optional, at least for now, and plan leakage is a new area of scrutiny.

ERISA attorney Nancy Ross explains the potential outcomes of Montanile v. Board of Trustees, a low-flying but potentially important Supreme Court case testing the difference between damages and...

The Women’s Pension Protection Act increases spousal protections and improves retirement plan coverage for long-term part-time workers.

A federal appeals court found easy grounds for approving a default judgement levied against a plan sponsor whom effectively ignored participants’ claims regarding delinquent employer contributions. 

Lawmakers and industry reps are concerned with where the proposal is heading, what’s in it and how fast it’s moving. 

Employee plans division leadership at the Internal Revenue Service candidly admits worsening budget constraints are making its job more difficult.

A congressional subcommittee heard testimony on the proposed bipartisan principles that go head to head with the fiduciary proposal.

Clients with pension plans undergoing distress or involuntary termination should know the agency issued a new table for determining expected retirement ages for participants.

The agency will share examination program priorities for the new year, among other things.

The SEC this week voted to propose rules to enhance operational transparency and regulatory oversight of alternative trading systems—and the activities of brokers using them. 

Staunchly supporting the DOL’s fiduciary proposal, the Financial Planning Coalition calls out recent legislative stall tactics.

ERISA attorney David Levine offers a few thoughts about the potential road ahead for auto-IRAs and state-run open MEPs for the private sector.

One career actuary tells PLANADVISER unrelenting increases in PGGC premiums belie a lack of forward-thinking policy and are more likely to harm than help overall U.S. retirement readiness. 

Industry insiders are divided on whether this is a good idea.

States offering retirement planning solutions to private-sector workers got their first look at a few highly anticipated (and increasingly controversial) pieces of regulatory guidance this week. 

After much back and forth, an appellate court has finally dismissed a lawsuit against State Street Bank and Trust Company over its handling of the employee stock ownership...

The Internal Revenue Service is implementing new market rate of return rules for hybrid pension plans.