Compliance

Beginning in January, terminating DC plans will have the option of transferring missing participants’ benefits to PBGC instead of establishing an individual retirement account (IRA) at a financial...

A final rule provides a new table for determining expected retirement ages for participants in pension plans undergoing distress or involuntary termination with valuation dates falling in 2018.

The House GOP majority adopted a unified version of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Tuesday afternoon; they may have to repeat the process one more time.

Drawing on a number of recent decisions, the district court ruled the plaintiffs did not adequately describe how the offering of a fund in which they did not...

The updated mortality improvement rates and static tables apply for purposes of calculating the funding target and other items for valuation dates occurring during calendar year 2019.

However, employers will likely have some difficulty in knowing how to handle the January 1, 2018, effective date that has been assigned for many provisions in the House...

The bill would facilitate lifetime income disclosure, clarify the current annuity selection safe harbor and expand access to multiple employer plans.

In addition to being barred as serving as a fiduciary for five years, the fund manager is ordered to make more than $45,000 in restitution to the plan,...

All employees would have 6% of their income contributed to a workplace retirement plan and have these contributions automatically escalated each year.

Preston Rutledge seems to be enjoying relatively little opposition as he moves closer to becoming the Assistant Secretary of Labor for the Employee Benefits Security Administration—a key position...

Investors are generally capable of looking out for their own interests and should have freedom of access to shop the financial services marketplace for retirement income guarantees, the...

House and Senate Democrats warned that, if nothing is done, many of the more than 200 multiemployer plans in the U.S. are projected to fail within just the...

The bill would allow retirement plan sponsors to automatically default participants into receiving plan documents and statements online.

The lawsuit contended that among defined contribution plans with more than $1 billion in assets, the average plan has costs equal to 0.33% of assets per year; in...

The American Retirement Association says that by lowering small business income tax rates to 27% but not applying that to taxes on 401(k) withdrawals for small business owners...

Based on Great-West’s investigation and the work of FBI agents, it appears that unauthorized individuals have been fraudulently obtaining access to funds held in a small number of...

The agency began issuing these lists when it ended the determination letter program for individually designed retirement plans.

The complaint seeks to state a claim—without relying on hindsight—by arguing the underperformance of a large cap fund was “virtually guaranteed because it contained a serious design flaw...

“IHI cannot delegate fully its statutory responsibilities under ERISA,” a federal judge says in her opinion.