Compliance

Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis said a district court correctly held that plan fiduciaries acted imprudently by investing in retail mutual funds that were available as institutional...

The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee has granted conditional class certification in a lawsuit concerning the 401(k) plan of First Horizon National Corporation (FHN).

As the last day of submitting comments to the Department of Labor (DoL) drew to a close, the American Society of Pension Professionals & Actuaries (ASPPA) urged the...

The ERISA Industry Committee (ERIC) believes that electronic disclosures will improve efficiencies at every step in a retirement plan, which it explained in a letter to the Department...

With the added support of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in CIGNA Corp. v. Amara, Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis again filed an amicus curiae brief with...

The American Society of Pension Professionals & Actuaries (ASPPA) has requested that the Internal Revenue Service revise the due date for filing the Form 8955-SSA for 2009 and...

The SPARK Institute urged the Department of Labor (DoL) to issue new rules that permit widespread use of electronic media for required disclosures to retirement plan sponsors and...

The American Society of Pension Professionals & Actuaries (ASPPA) says proposals to scale back or eliminate retirement savings tax incentives for 401(k) plans are based on misleading math.

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) will publish in tomorrow’s Federal Register a notice proposing to extend and align the applicability dates for its...

There are still changes to be made to 408(b)(2), said Assistant Secretary of Labor Phyllis Borzi, speaking last week.

The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has denied a petition to rehear a case alleging Kraft Foods breached its fiduciary duties under the Employee Retirement Income Security...

Proposed regulations for lifetime income options are under review at the Internal Revenue Service.

The SPARK Institute is accepting requests from the retirement plan community for possible changes to its lifetime income solutions data standards.

The U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey has dismissed a suit alleging John Hancock charged 401(k) plans excessive fees for investment services.

The U.S. Supreme Court vacated a lower court’s decision on grounds that that it lacked authority under ERISA to reinstate CIGNA's traditional defined benefit plan as a remedy...

The Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) has requested comments on the proposed extension of three information collection requests (ICRs).

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has fined Nuveen Investments, LLC, $3 million for creating misleading marketing materials used in sales of auction rate preferred securities (ARPS).

Drinker Biddle says the IRS is getting ready to issue long-anticipated regulations governing Internal Revenue Code Section 457(f) plans.

The U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) is hosting a workshop on how to correct certain fiduciary violations under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA).

A federal appeals court has ruled that UMB Bank is not responsible for losses to retirement plan accounts from investments directed by participants’ investment adviser.