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Notice 2020-42 provides temporary relief from the physical presence requirement for any participant election witnessed by a notary public in a state that permits remote notarization or witnessed...

The underlying allegations in the case involve the 2012 spinoff of Phillips 66 from the ConocoPhillips Corp., a large oil and gas company.

Collective investment trusts are becoming more transparent; case in point, Hand Benefits & Trust Co. has gone live with more than 30 CIT tickers on the Nasdaq Fund...

The Department of Labor has submitted a draft regulation to the Office of Management and Budget.

Part of the Supreme Court’s reasoning in affirming two lower court rulings in Thole v. U.S. Bank is the fact that the Department of Labor polices pension plan...

The agreement also calls for the university to issue an RFP for recordkeeping services and engage an independent consultant to review investments, among other things.

The board will begin enforcement of the Code of Ethics and Standards of Conduct on June 30.

The state is following in the footsteps of Iowa, which earlier this month adopted a regulation to require annuity agents to act in the best interest of their...

With the electronic disclosure delivery regulation in the bag, retirement industry lobbyists have turned their attention back to the ambitious Portman-Cardin bill, a version of which could soon...

One critical component of the Regulation Best Interest is the customer relationship summary form, or “Form CRS,” which provides new and existing clients with detailed information about a...

A federal judge noted that the pandemic will affect civil jury trials in the Southern District of New York “for a considerable and presently unknowable time to come.”

It took a catastrophic global event to demonstrate how ill-prepared many Americans are for even a brief interruption of income—including many people high up on the income scale.

Each year, the Internal Revenue Service adjusts its annual contribution limitations for health savings accounts to account for inflation.

Compared with other regulatory efforts undertaken in recent years by the Department of Labor, this one enjoys near universal support among retirement plan industry stakeholders.

Looking back to the Great Recession and Great Depression, unemployment data shows that the full effect of those downturns took years to play out. Will we now follow...

Ninety-two percent of sponsors work with advisers, but only 70% are ‘very satisfied’ with their relationships.

On its face, the multiemployer pension relief included in House Democrats’ fourth relief proposal resembles a plan floated last year by two influential Republican senators—though the devil is...

DCIIA and SPARK surveyed members in early April with regard to the CARES Act and the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.