Compliance

April 17, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – What is the trustee of a retirement plan that offers employer stock as an investment option supposed to do with inside information that...

April 16, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Under a settlement with the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), Saint-Gobain Containers, Inc. has made $207.5 million of additional contributions to its pension...

April 16, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Sponsors of both defined benefit (DB) and defined contribution (DC) retirement plans will need to review plan documents to ensure the definition of...

April 15, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Without admitting any wrongdoing, ING Life Insurance and Annuity Company has agreed to settle a lawsuit claiming it violated prohibited transaction rules of...

April 15, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A coalition of advocacy groups representing U.S. retirement plan service providers filed a detailed comment letter with the federal Office of Management and...

April 14, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Investment adviser Donald Gene DeWaay Jr., based in Johnston, Iowa, has paid $341,487 to 68 pension plans covered by the Employee Retirement Income...

April 14 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Multinational employers that sponsor non-U.S. retirement plans may have new requirements under the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA).

April 14, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Coalition to Preserve Retirement sent an open letter to Representative David Camp, R-Michigan, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, pushing...

April 11, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) recently proposed rules about the treatment of rollovers from defined contribution (DC) plans to defined benefit plans...

April 10, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) says a Phoenix, Arizona, school district unlawfully used an early retirement incentive plan.

April 8, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – This summer, the Department of Labor (DOL) will be holding free seminars about fiduciary responsibilities in Hartford, Connecticut, and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

April 7, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has released guidance on the treatment of marriages of same-gender couples with regard to retirement plans.

April 4, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal appellate court affirmed a lower court ruling that Baltimore County, Maryland's pension plan discriminates based on age.

April 3, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will hold a phone forum about retirement plan terminations.

April 4, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has filed a lawsuit to recover losses to the Cargill Heating & Air Conditioning Co. Inc. Savings...

April 3, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal district court recently dismissed allegations of fiduciary breach and fraud leveled against Wells Fargo.

April 4, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Department of Labor (DOL) is offering two free seminars about compliance with health benefit laws in Des Moines, Iowa, and Louisville, Kentucky.

April 4, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Advocate Health Care Network in Illinois is the latest pension plan sponsor facing a challenge to its plan’s status as a “church plan.”

April 4, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal court refused to dismiss a lawsuit against Saint Peter’s Healthcare System, holding that its retirement plan is not a “church plan”...

April 3, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) have issued guidance designed to more easily facilitate the transfer of...