Lincoln Financial Group’s Retirement Plan Services business is making key enhancements to its Lincoln Director employer-sponsored retirement plan program for small-business clients.
Even after a previous compliant filed by the DOL, a fiduciary to the Applied Technology Systems Retirement Plan transferred plan assets to a company account.
Manning & Napier adviser services executive suggests the regulatory environment confronting retirement plan advisers and their clients is about as complex as it’s ever been.
After years of speculation and an intense, ongoing retirement plan industry debate, the Department of Labor has advanced its conflict of interest regulations to the Office of Management...
One attorney specializing in ERISA litigation suggests the pace of lawsuits has increased fairly substantially in the last year, with signs of even more momentum in 2016.
Cerulli Associates does not anticipate a slowdown in adviser-mediated rollover activity in the foreseeable future—whether or not a strengthened fiduciary rule is approved by the DOL.
Speaking at a Brookings Institution public meeting, U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez said he is “confident we will be making changes to improve and clarify our proposal.”
A lawsuit filed by two participants in an Allianz retirement plan claims the company and its asset management partners, including PIMCO, misused employees’ 401(k) plan assets for their...