Compliance

Once two 401(k) plan administrators learned a dead participant’s common-law spouse was legally validating her marital status, the plans should have postponed distribution of the participant’s balance until...

The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois ruled that Motorola Inc. and fiduciaries of its 401(k) plan did not breach their fiduciary duties under the...

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has recently added updated tools to its Employee Plan Team Audit (EPTA) Web site.

The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., could find itself facing a participant lawsuit.

The House Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Pensions and Labor has approved the 401(k) Fair Disclosure for Retirement Security Act (H.R. 1984) and the Conflicted Investment Advice Prohibition Act...

A court dismissed a securities fraud suit accusing executives at health insurance giant Aetna Inc. of making false statements about the company's “disciplined″ pricing strategies to drive up...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released the lineup of witnesses set to testify about target-date funds before SEC and Department of Labor (DoL) officials on Thursday.

A court ruled that participants in the First American Corp. 401(k) plan cannot be certified as a class for purposes of a suit questioning the appropriateness of maintaining...

Ravaged by the same fiscal turbulence pounding the nation's legitimate businesses, Ponzi operations have been collapsing at a record clip, The Washington Post reported.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will ask a federal judge to block some investor lawsuits against the failed Reserve Primary Fund to ensure all shareholders get as...

Monsanto Co. walked away with a mixed outcome from two rulings by a federal judge in Illinois—one in the employer’s favor and a second in favor of participants—regarding...

403(b) plan participants have until June 30 to correct defective contract exchanges to avoid the amounts becoming immediately taxable.

A federal judge in Massachusetts has ordered the sponsor of a master plan to strike a clause in its plan documents relieving the trustee of the duty to...

Spector Roseman Kodroff&Willis, P.C., filed another class action against Austin Capital Management Ltd. for millions of dollars of losses due to improper investments in securities controlled by Bernard...

A three-judge court of appeals ruled that a federal district court should not have reversed a copyright infringement case brought by broker The Graham Co. against broker USI...

The Keller Rohrback class-action law firm announced Thursday that it is investigating the investment activities of Northern Trust Company (NTC) and Northern Trust Investments (NTI).

U.S. Representative Richard Neal (D-Massachusetts) has introduced legislation that would require administrators of 401(k) plans to provide plan participants with detailed fee and investment disclosures.

Banc of America Securities and its broker/dealer arm will return more than $3 billion to investors in California to settle alleged violations of the sales of auction-rate securities...

Bipartisan legislation has been introduced to give workers a new incentive to annuitize, rather than spend, their retirement savings.

The deadline for comments on the Internal Revenue Service’s proposal for a 403(b) plan document prototype program was June 1, and trade groups and industry providers had a...