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The agency also issued information about how to obtain or re-establish an employer identification number (EIN) for a retirement plan trust.

Modifying the definition of employer for these plans will help employers reduce health benefit administrative costs through economies of scale, the Department of Labor says.

State Street Global Advisors reveals latest SPDR ETFs, and Charles Schwab announces addition of 12 ETFs to OneSource.

Public pension fund members surveyed expressed interest in more transparency about pension fund investments and investment returns.

“A bad day in 2017 was a flat day,” says Bob Doll, chief equity strategist at Nuveen Asset Management. “Turning to 2018 we can be quite optimistic once...

An analysis from Mayer Brown LLP attorneys offers helpful guidance for retirement plan fiduciaries thinking about making changes to their stable value or money market funds in 2018.

The National Business Group on Health sees more traction in value purchasing, increasing employee consumerism and increasing employee engagement in resources offered to them.

Recent discussion among Federal Reserve Board members has brought into question the transitory nature of the current lower level of inflation, says Matt Toms, Voya Investment Management’s chief...

“Investors could benefit enormously from a compact and timely disclosure document that they actually look at and understand,” said SEC Commissioner Kara Stein. 

Aaron Friedman, national practice leader, tax-exempt, at Principal in West Palm Beach, Florida, says “small and mid-sized plans are very much in need of advisers because they don’t...

Alongside numerous changes, the bill seeks to eliminate the current 10% cap on automatically-increased deferral rates of employees who are automatically enrolled in a plan.

Retirement plan sponsors with participants in U.S. territories should familiarize themselves with any differences in law.

With a new Fed chair and expectations for rising rates, 2018 will be a year to focus on fixed income portfolios.

Along with non-monetary relief, Allianz will pay $12 million into a common fund for the benefit of class members, to be allocated pro rata among the members in...

On the motion for reconsideration of its previous choice to rule against summary dismissal, the court is quite skeptical. It has agreed, on the other hand, to stay...

A judge ultimately found that Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance Company was not a fiduciary with respect to the fund and the plaintiff did not show that, as...

So far, reporting seems to suggest that the numerous fraudulent comments submitted to DOL regarding the fiduciary rule were done so mainly with stolen or outright fake identities...

Although the case involves an employer-provided life insurance plan, it has lessons for what constitutes a QDRO for all ERISA plans.

TIAA also discovered that participants with web access are twice as likely to seek out advice as those without web access.

The idea is to put participants with lesser unfunded vested benefits (UVBs) in one plan, and those with greater UVBs in another.