Compliance

June 26, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Legislation that would allow federal employees under the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) to get credit in their pension calculation for unused sick...

June 25, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida has declined to enforce arbitration clauses contained in account agreements between the City...

June 25, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Retirement plan fiduciaries may have another acronym to worry about - FBAR - which is another name for the Report of Foreign Bank...

June 24, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is expected to unveil tighter proposed restrictions for money-market mutual funds, according to people who have been...

June 24, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has voted unanimously to propose rule amendments designed to significantly strengthen the regulatory framework for money market...

June 24, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A closely-watched U.S. House bill mandating comprehensive 401(k) fee disclosures and dealing with plans providing investment advice made it out of committee on...

June 23, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has finalized its list of guidance documents issued in the last 45 years dealing with 403(b) plans declared...

June 23, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - North Dakota Democratic U.S. Representative Earl Pomeroy on Tuesday unveiled a wide variety of possible approaches to helping defined benefit pension plans make...

June 23, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In testimony before the House Education and Labor Committee, Michael Stapley, President and Chief Executive Officer of Deseret Mutual and Vice Chair of...

June 22, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has assumed responsibility for the pensions of more than 6,000 former workers and retirees of Dan River...

June 22, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - FOX Business claims to have obtained a five-page presentation, prepared by the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Senator Max Baucus (D-Montana), that...

June 19, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The chairmen of the three committees with jurisdiction over health policy in the U.S. House of Representatives - all Democrats - have unveiled...

June 19, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois has ruled that Motorola Inc. and fiduciaries of its 401(k) plan did not...

June 19, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) today announced it has assumed responsibility for the pension plan of more than 22,000 workers and retirees...

June 19, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Once two 401(k) plan administrators learned a dead participant's common-law spouse was legally validating her marital status, the plans should have postponed distribution...

June 19, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has recently added updated tools to its Employee Plan Team Audit (EPTA) Web site.

June 19, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Chicagoland plan sponsors, fiduciaries, and providers can bone up on their fiduciary responsibilities next week.

June 18, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - U.S. Representative Earl Pomeroy waded into the health care reform debate with a proposed bill that he says supports health systems that reward...

June 18, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - McGraw-Hill Cos. has been hit with a stock drop lawsuit alleging its shares were artificially inflated because subsidiary Standard & Poor's (S&P) used...

June 18, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers won a major legal victory Thursday when a divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled workers now have to prove their age was the...