Tag: Fiduciary

Mercer released its list of suggested New Year’s Resolutions for defined contribution sponsors; something a plan adviser may want to pass forward. 

The Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) announced an extension of the comment period on its proposal to update the definition of fiduciary.

Not so long ago, plan sponsors gauged the success of their defined contribution offerings by a single metric: participation rate.   

Fiduciary adviser Roland|Criss has launched the Stewardship Development Center (SDC) to train fiduciary leaders and their teams.

Pioneer Investments is partnering with Fiduciary360 (fi360) “to help prepare advisers for an increasingly fiduciary future.”

Securian Retirement has teamed with 401(k) Advisors to offer a 3(38) investment management fiduciary service.

Having recently had a couple of new members join our 401(k) investment committee, I asked our investment adviser to conduct a briefing.

Thanksgiving has been called a “uniquely American” holiday, and one on which, IMHO, it is fitting to reflect on all for which we have to...

Yogi Berra, Hall of Fame catcher for the New York Yankees, once said, “If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.”

In a very real sense, this has been a “rebuilding” year for many plan sponsors and participants.  

As defined contribution (DC) plans have much more inherent risk than defined benefit plans, participants, sponsors, and advisers need to take a more hands-on and active approach to...

Last week the Labor Department issued a proposal that would, by its reckoning, provide the first update to the definition of an ERISA fiduciary since...

For the first time in a generation, the Labor Department has taken another crack at the definition of a fiduciary under the Employee Retirement Income...

The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) has accused four money management firms of violating their fiduciary duties by causing hundreds of millions of dollars in losses to pension...

Last week, during our PLANADVISER National Conference, I asked a panel of four plan sponsors if their current adviser was a fiduciary—and if that status mattered...

At the PLANADVISER National Conference, retirement plan advisers got to hear straight-talk from four plan sponsors about what they expect from their advisers.   

CPI Qualified Plan Consultants, Inc., a third-party recordkeeping and administration company headquartered in Great Bend, Kansas, has released its Investment Fiduciary Protection Program (IFPP). 

In the opening panel discussion at the PLANADVISER National Conference (PANC) in Orlando on Monday, four panelists discussed the need for more participant education and the evolution of...

Reliance Trust Company's Retirement Strategies division is expanding its Special Fiduciary Services business unit.

Participants in 401(k) plans invested in mutual funds paid slightly higher expense ratios in 2009, according to an annual report by the Investment Company Institute (ICI).