Compliance

The White House has released a statement outlining the president’s tax proposals.

Edison International has petitioned the U.S. Supreme court to drop its review of Tibble vs. Edison International, a closely watched retirement plan fee litigation case involving the company’s...

Leaders of the Insured Retirement Institute expect “swift and significant legislative reaction” if the Department of Labor’s fiduciary redefinition proposal closely resembles a preliminary version filed in 2010.

The U.S. Labor Department filed a complaint against a Rochester, New York, investment adviser and plan administrator to recover losses suffered as result of alleged fiduciary breaches.

The DOL has issued guidance about new DB plan funding notice requirements of the Highway and Transportation Funding Act of 2014.

The surviving spouse of a fully vested participant in a FedEx pension plan claims she is being unlawfully denied a survivor annuity benefit owed to her by the...

A committee tasked with considering a state-established retirement plan for private-sector employees has issued its recommendation report.

A survey finds the majority of DC plan sponsors that offer company stock as an investment option have no plans to make changes to the offer, despite a...

The Securities and Exchange Commission adopted several sets of rules and proposed others related to data collection and reporting for security-based swap data repositories.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released examination priorities for 2015 in the shortest form ever: just five pages.

The PBGC is revising its premium filing procedures to require reporting of pension risk transfer actions.

The DOL’s Employee Benefits Security Administration says a substantial year-over-year drop in the agency’s reported collection totals for 2014 is the result of a change in reporting technique.

Staff reductions over several years must be related to be considered together when deciding if a partial pension plan termination occurred.

A pension plan that has changed actuarial services firms can have a change in funding method automatically approved.

The dollar amount secured by the DOL’s Employee Benefit Security Administration dropped substantially in 2014 compared with the previous year, despite a higher number of cases closed and...

In Amara v. CIGNA Corp., an appellate court has once again agreed that a change in plan terms is an appropriate remedy for plan misrepresentations.

The Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration says it restored over $599.7 million to employee benefit plans and participants last year.

A lawsuit claims fiduciaries to Avon Products defined contribution plan violated their duties to participants by...

FINRA’s Annual Regulatory and Examination Priorities Letter highlights issues of importance to FINRA's regulatory programs.

An SEC filing reveals that RadioShack is facing several lawsuits over the company stock investment offering...