Tag: Department of Labor (DOL)

Retirement industry groups ask agencies to scale down reporting requirements for investments, fees and compliance.

The Senator suggests that the new administration and Congress will likely unwind the rule, so the Labor Department should not impose unnecessary costs on advisers.

Retirement reforms being implemented in the UK through 2018 represent an important testing ground for government-backed savings efforts. 

A new survey finds that as implementation of the DOL’s fiduciary rule approaches, more than half of advisers expect to increase investment in client service and compliance technology.

Arguments focused on the First Amendment.

 

The RiXtrema database will allow advisers to benchmark fee structures against others based on several factors, including account size, geography and services offered, to prove they’re working in...

As the implementation date for the Department of Labor (DOL)’s Conflict of Interest rule approaches, Capital One Investing will be moving away from commission-based products within its retirement-account...

“Evolutionary Fiduciary” will provide additional fiduciary resources, FAQs and forms for visitors to submit questions before the April 2017 deadline. 

Reuters broke the news that JP Morgan Chase and Co. will stop offering commission-based retirement accounts prior to the DOL fiduciary rule implementation.

As Baby Boomers push closer to retirement, they are facing a drastically different investing world than the one they grew up in—gaining access to radically different approaches to...

One early commentator tells PLANADVISER he expects the new DOL fiduciary rule will still be implemented, yet there is undoubtedly a new atmosphere of uncertainty with the presidential...

A U.S. district court judge has ruled in favor of the DOL fiduciary rule’s pending implementation, defeating fixed-indexed annuity providers’ effort to stall the groundbreaking regulation in court.

Advisers will certainly have heard questions from clients about the use of 12b-1 fees moving forward under the new DOL fiduciary rule; what are the experts saying?

The firm initially planned to halt commission-based brokerage sales to retirement accounts when the first DOL fiduciary rule deadlines arrive in 2017, but Merrill Lynch has decided to...

In light of the DOL fiduciary rule, the two firms plan to roll out a series of new compliance tools and initiatives including a Product Mix Transition Calculator...