Whoever takes on the role of DOL Secretary will be tasked with overseeing the Trump administration’s response to the forthcoming fiduciary rule reforms.
A look at the retirement plan run by CKE Restaurants offers some food for thought about why the company's CEO, Andrew Puzder, backed away from the post of...
A Texas district court judge has rejected industry arguments that the DOL exceeded its authority in crafting the forthcoming fiduciary rule—what this spells for the regulation’s future under...
A participant who drew four loans from a retirement account over the years argues her provider inappropriately kept portions of interest payments that should have been credited back...
The Trump White House has clearly tried to label itself as pro-business, but the effort to halt the fiduciary rule has so far injected more confusion than clarity...
Plaintiffs from the Caterpillar retirement plan feel the price paid for advice was too high and was not transparently tied to the level of service delivered.
“If there were any doubt about the best interpretation of the church-plan definition, it would be resolved by the position adopted and consistently applied by the IRS, DOL,...
Defendants unsuccessfully argued that the breach of fiduciary claims should be dismissed because they fulfilled their duties by offering an array of investment options.
Conflicting media reports have started to circulate, some to the effect that a delay of the DOL fiduciary rule has already been effectuated—others that are more skeptical this...
Advisers are “keenly aware of their clients’ moods and recognize that there are no ‘one size fits all’ retirement plans in the face of an unpredictable future,” research...
A new series of white papers from Fiduciary Benchmarks asks the challenging question, “Who has the job of determining whether an adviser’s compensation is reasonable?”
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation has released updated instructions on filing premiums required by sections 4006 and 4007 of ERISA during the 2017 plan year.
To appreciate the riskiness of a stock intimately involves its market valuation, and to argue that the ESOP fiduciaries should have been able to outguess the market’s valuation...
Since the DOL conflict of interest rule’s publication, mutual fund providers and their adviser-intermediaries have also been asking the SEC extensive questions about sales loads, fee schedules, etc.
Two plan trustees are accused of breaching their fiduciary duties by failing to take action to recover funds owed to a money purchase plan, which was loaned in...