Compliance

The recent MOVEit breach highlighted the need for plan sponsors to carefully vet service providers in order to protect participants’ assets, data and personal information.

For protecting defined contribution plans, the stakes are high, with workers’ information—and trust—on the line.

The fine was imposed by the SEC Friday for persistent and high-level failures to communicate on approved channels.

The proposal would streamline the registration and disclosure process for RILAs and highlight their unique features.

Plaintiffs seek to add former U.S. Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia to their legal team.

The SAFER Banking Act would permit marijuana firms to access banking and financial services, including retirement plans.

The SEC argues fund trustees assisted a mutual fund in dodging liquidity requirements by not acting to properly classify the assets.

The 10th Circuit has joined several other circuit courts in holding that a ‘meaningful benchmark’ must apply to 401(k) participant lawsuits, and ERISA attorneys agree it will not...

A law firm has sued four defined pension plans over the last six weeks alleging fiduciaries violated ERISA and shortchanged vested participants.

The court’s decision says that the rule does not violate ERISA, but another case in Wisconsin continues.

Student loan payments are set to restart in October, and some collecting Social Security could soon see their benefits garnished.

Even though it opens the process up for more pension funds to participate, few are likely to take advantage.

Sponsors should know when their legal communications are privileged and when they are not.

Opponents say the proposed regulation on mutual funds would create a two-tiered system that disadvantages retail and retirement investors.

The Plasterers and Cement Masons Local No. 94 Pension Fund will see a full restoration of cut benefits.

The plan’s former trustee, Reliance Trust Company, settled a complaint following an investigation.

The back-and-forth between the former pilot and the air line over ESG considerations continues in federal court in Texas.

Industry advocates submitted a brief encouraging the 9th Circuit to rehear a decision against AT&T in a 2017 excessive fee case.

The DOL sent a new fiduciary rule for an interagency review before its publication in the Federal Register.