Tag: EBSA

Drawing on their collective decades of experience working inside and outside the DOL, a panel of expert ERISA attorneys convened...

This is meant to help retirement investors, employee benefit plans and investment advice providers.

Trade groups and advocacy organizations representing the retirement planning industry have reacted positively, if cautiously, to the confirmation of Marty...

The full Senate voted Monday evening to approve the nomination of Boston Mayor Marty Walsh to lead the U.S. Department of Labor at critical time for the U.S....

The department says it will not pursue enforcement actions against any plan fiduciary for failure to comply, and it plans to release further guidance on the issues.

The prescheduled phase-out of the coronavirus disaster declaration had created a ‘compliance conundrum,’ which the DOL has now addressed by issuing additional guidance.

In the coming days, the agency will publish related guidance for retirement investors, employee benefit plans and investment advice providers.

The guidance includes best practices for locating missing participants in addition to best practices for documenting efforts to do so.

The second-term mayor of Boston is known for fighting for a higher minimum wage and for being a long-term union member who is outspoken about the role of...

The final version of the regulation emphasizes the importance of using only ‘pecuniary’ factors in the assessment of investment options within tax-qualified retirement plans, rather than expressly limiting...

Creating a requirement for recordkeepers to provide lifetime income projections is a popular idea, but the EBSA’s proposed framework is...

The most obvious potential conflict of interest for advisers setting up or serving pooled employer plans is if their practice...

It is not all doom and gloom for plan sponsors and participants who want these investments. Here’s what advisers should...

Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia says employer-sponsored plans ‘are not vehicles for furthering social goals or policy objectives.’

Responses to the request for information (RFI) will help the Department of Labor (DOL) evaluate the need for a proposal on new prohibited transaction exemptions related to pooled employer...

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.

The agency is relaxing timing rules for certain actions and notices if timing is affected by the COVID-19 outbreak.

Rutledge will remain with the Department of Labor through the end of May, at which time he will have been in the post of assistant secretary for the...