Tag: Fiduciary adviser

If implemented, financial advisers said a fiduciary standard would put an increased focus on financial planning and fee-based advisory services, according to an industry report.

FCRC Apps, LLC, a software development firm, has announced the release of version 2.0 of its Web-based application, eFiduciary.net.

The Obama Administration on Monday released retirement initiatives, including establishing automatic individual retirement accounts (IRAs), simplifying and expanding the Saver's Credit, and updating 401(k) regulations to increase transparency.

Defined contribution (DC) plan sponsors said reviewing plan-related expenses was the most important fiduciary action they took over the past year, according to a Callan Associates survey.

Next month employers and plan fiduciaries in the Los Angeles, California area will get a chance to better understand their fiduciary responsibilities.

In an advisory opinion, the U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) addressed whether investment advisers to the mutual funds underlying target-date funds used in a retirement plan are plan...

The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) said it is investigating how it can best encourage the use of lifetime annuities or other similar instruments.

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) announced Monday that it is giving itself until May 17, 2010, to develop a new version of its...

Ascensus is now a retirement plan provider for Commonwealth Financial Network’s new Retirement Plan Consulting program.

The Financial Planning Coalition launched a Web site to serve as the central point of its efforts to require more fiduciary accountability.

Citi announced that financial advisers at Citibank branches will no longer provide commission-based transactions.

I am admittedly something of a pension (and regulatory) geek, but when the SunAmerica Opinion was published (December 2001), it was clear that something big had...

Wirehouses can bring scale and product innovation to the retirement plan adviser—and pay the electricity bill for you, noted Ed O’Connor, managing director at UBS Financial Services.

Sitting in the audience at the ASPPA/DoL Speaks conference last week, I was reminded just how disruptive it can be to have a new boss.  

When it comes to employee benefit plans, there’s a new sheriff in town. 

The Department of Labor is killing the final 401(k) investment advice rule under the Pension Protection Act, according to news reports.

A Missouri broker who officials charge had improperly convinced investors to stop their 401(k) contributions and refinance their homes to make money available for unsuitable investments has been...

It may be of little consolation to his victims, but a federal judge gave Bernard Madoff a sentence that should keep him behind bars for the rest of...