Tag: ERISA

When working with tribal nations, building a solid relationship is the first and most important step.

Supporters say the California Secure Choice Retirement Savings Program will provide a voluntary, low-risk, auto-enrollment retirement savings plan for many uncovered workers in the state. 

Among the many provisions and definitions in the forthcoming DOL fiduciary rule will likely be an “education carve-out,” considered to be one of the most high-stakes elements of...

A federal district court has ruled for a second time on litigation arising from a dispute over verbal and written beneficiary designations.

The tools can help retirement plan sponsor clients manage their fiduciary responsibilities.

The appellate court maintained that, under ERISA, a church plan must be established by a church, and Advocate Health Care Network's DB plan was not.

Trusted ERISA attorneys Fred Reish and Brad Campbell, of Drinker Biddle and Reath, cut through some of the “mishmash of conflicting rumor and speculation” surrounding the forthcoming final...

The Republican party is still attempting to shoot down the fiduciary rule—almost certainly in vain.

Senator Johnny Isakson has introduced legislation designed to foil the fiduciary rule and amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.

The late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia had a direct (but not necessarily pivotal) role in shaping many of the SCOTUS decisions tracked in recent years by the...

The Pension Resource Institute is making its RetirementAdvantage program available to registered investment advisers that work with TD Ameritrade Institutional.

The newly emerged text of President Obama’s 2017 budget proposal includes hundreds of millions of dollars in proposed funding over the next decade to encourage wider use of...

After seeing their pension risk transfer lawsuits dismissed in both district and circuit court, tens of thousands of former Verizon employees hope SCOTUS will have more sympathy. 

The Republican-dominated House of Representative’s ongoing effort to halt the Department of Labor’s fiduciary rulemaking is starting to look a lot like its previous attempts to gut the...