Compliance | July 31st, 2013 More Regulatory Guidance Expected August 1, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Plan sponsors and advisers are awaiting more regulatory guidance about a number of important issues.
Products | July 23rd, 2013 Plan Provider Waives Plan Startup Costs July 23, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Starting July 24, a provider of retirement plans for small and medium-sized businesses will offer...
Products | July 22nd, 2013 Lincoln Trust Offers Plan Comparison Tool July 22, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Lincoln Trust launched a tool that enables plan sponsors and advisers to compare the costs...
Products | July 17th, 2013 OneAmerica Service Helps Ensure Fee Equity July 17, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - OneAmerica company McCready and Keene, Inc. announced its new Strategic and Targeted Allocation of Revenue...
Compliance | July 15th, 2013 Certain Revenue Sharing Payments not Plan Assets July 15, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Department of Labor (DOL) has weighed in on whether certain revenue sharing payments constitute...
Administration | July 2nd, 2013 High Investment Fees Don’t Equal High Returns July 2, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A new report examining state pension funds found that there is no connection between high...
Compliance | June 24th, 2013 Tentative Settlement Reached in Excessive Fee Case June 24, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A tentative settlement has been reached in a lawsuit concerning excessive fees for 401(k) investments.
Benefits | June 13th, 2013 401(k) Participants' Mutual Fund Expenses Declined June 13, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The expenses 401(k) plan participants incurred for investing in long-term mutual funds declined in 2012,...
Opinions | June 7th, 2013 Fees: 3 Steps Every Plan Sponsor Should Take June 7, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Everywhere that plan sponsors turned over the past 18...
Benefits | May 21st, 2013 Plan Sponsors Continue to “Automate” Participant Decisions May 21, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Plan sponsors are increasingly adopting features to help overcome participant inertia, a survey found.
Compliance | May 17th, 2013 Morgan Stanley, ING Sued for Plan Services Alliance May 17, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – An Alabama-based dermatopathology laboratory has filed a complaint regarding fees paid to its retirement plan...
Benefits | May 3rd, 2013 Benchmarking Fees for Optimizing Plan Value May 3, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Benchmarking plan fees can ultimately optimize the value of an employer’s retirement plan.
Administration | April 29th, 2013 OCERS Adopts New Investment Fee Policy April 29, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Orange County Employees Retirement System (OCERS) has adopted a new investment management fee policy.
Administration | April 29th, 2013 OCERS Adopts New Investment Fee Policy April 29, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Orange County Employees Retirement System (OCERS) has adopted a new investment management fee policy.
Benefits | April 24th, 2013 Most Participants Ignored Fee Disclosure April 24, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Only 30% of 401(k) plan participants said they “paid attention” to the fee disclosures they...
Compliance | April 22nd, 2013 ASPPA Seeks Relief for Disclosure Deadline April 22, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The American Society of Pension Professionals & Actuaries (ASPPA) is requesting transitional relief for the...
Compliance | April 22nd, 2013 AUL’s Revenue-Sharing Practices No Fiduciary Breach April 22, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal appellate court has found in favor of American United Life Insurance Company (AUL)...
Compliance | March 25th, 2013 9th Circuit Affirms Ruling in Retail Fund Dispute March 25, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – An employer lost another legal battle for failure to ask about lower-priced investments for its...
Compliance | March 18th, 2013 DOL Offers Resources for Participants About Fees March 18, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Department of Labor’s (DOL) Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) has resources for participants to...
Compliance | March 14th, 2013 Fidelity Faces Another Float Income Suit March 14, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Another lawsuit has been filed against Fidelity Investments regarding its use of float income.