Compliance

July 16, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal appeals court has revived a stock drop case, filed against oil company BP Plc, based on a new precedent set by...

July 15, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Several proposed tax reforms would restructure how retirement vehicles are taxed and could negatively impact retirement plans in a number of ways.

July 14, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will be presenting a free webinar about the impact of new health care benefits law on state and...

July 14, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Retirement plan sponsors should become familiar with laws covering employees who have served, or are serving, in the military to ensure compliance with...

July 11, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – About 30 investment firms and other parties responded to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s latest call for comments about a still-pending 2010 proposal...

July 9, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – “You can’t guarantee yourself a win,” says employee benefits lawyer David Weiner, describing claims appeals and litigation involving missing retirement plan participants, “but...

July 9, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Department of Labor (DOL) wants to ensure that plan fiduciaries fully understand fee information they receive.

July 9, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has moved back the date of a phone forum on same-gender couples and retirement plans to July 17.

July 8, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation announced a moratorium, until the end of 2014, on the enforcement of 4062(e) cases.

July 8, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Internal Revenue Service (IRS) regulations requiring more oversight for 403(b) plans make it harder for those plan sponsors that want to maintain non-ERISA...

July 8, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Changes to rules for employer-sponsored retirement plans are established with regularity, and sometimes it is hard to determine what regulators have in mind...

July 7, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is recommending that regulators consider modifying Form 5500 plan investment and service provider fee information.

July 7, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A group health plan will repay clients for failing to disclose fees to them.

July 3, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - 403(b) plan documents currently may be presented in a myriad of forms, but pre-approved prototype plans are coming, which will provide some uniformity,...

July 2, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – In Washington State, same-sex domestic partnerships were automatically converted to marriages as of June 30.

July 1, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The U.S. Department of the Treasury issued final rules regarding longevity annuities—aimed at bringing more flexibility to retirement savers using the fixed-income vehicles...

June 30, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – While single-employer retirement plans are likely to improve over the next decade, the same cannot be said for multiemployer plans, the Pension Benefit...

June 30, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will host a free phone forum about 403(b) retirement plans.

June 30, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) has opened registration to webinars about its recent exposure draft, “Fair Value Measurement and Application.”

June 26, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The U.S. Supreme Court this week ruled employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) fiduciaries are not entitled to a presumption of prudence for keeping...