Tag: Fiduciary

The Department of Labor (DOL) has received a consent judgment and order allowing it to name a new fiduciary to distribute the assets of a Captiva, Florida, retirement...

Secretary of Labor, Thomas E. Perez, has filed a federal court brief disputing a district court’s dismissal of John Hancock’s liability in an excessive fee case.

A federal appellate court found two firms are successors for purposes of multiemployer plan liability for a closed business.

When you take on investment risk, you know returns could be high or low. But what that means for a multiemployer pension plan is different than for a...

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) intends to expand its pre-approved defined benefit plan program to permit plans with certain cash balance features to be submitted by sponsors and...

Retirement services provider FRA PlanTools released a custom 408(b)(2) checklist product.

U.S. House members belonging to the New Democrat Coalition asked the Department of Labor (DOL) to ensure new fiduciary rules protect access to investment advice.

Plan Sponsor Advisors (PSA) released a fully outsourced solution that manages qualified domestic relations orders (QDRO) for retirement plan fiduciaries.

The Department of Labor (DOL) is suing a Bigler, Pennsylvania, trucking company to recover employee contributions and payments to its 401(k) plan.

The Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE), part of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), released its list of examination priorities for 2014.

Regions Financial Corporation has agreed to settle a lawsuit relating to its offering of company stock and certain Morgan Keegan funds in its retirement plan.

Another participant in Fidelity Investments’ own retirement plan has brought a lawsuit saying participants paid excessive fees.

The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013, signed into law in December, increases both the flat- and variable-rate single-employer Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) premiums.

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Ameritas Life Insurance Corp. has partnered with Mesirow Financial Investment Strategies to bring fiduciary partnership services to retirement plan clients.

The retirement industry is anticipating a fiduciary re-definition and rules about lifetime income illustrations for plan participants, but there is much more in the pipeline.

It’s no secret that the 401(k) market presents a wealth of opportunities for advisers.

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case raising fiduciary issues and questions about what constitutes prudent investment decisionmaking within employee stock ownership plans (ESOP).

Aon Hewitt has launched SimPlus Savings, a suite of services aimed at assisting retirement plan sponsors and fiduciaries with plan-related tasks.

A federal court order appointed an independent fiduciary for a Holtsville, New York retirement plan.