Compliance | June 17th, 2020 DOL Issues SECURE Act RFI on PEPs, Prohibited Transactions Using affiliates to provide services and proprietary investment products when offering a pooled employer plan (PEP) raises fiduciary and prohibited...
Compliance | May 28th, 2020 Hopes Remain High for Portman-Cardin Bill Fresh off the recent success of their push for a default electronic disclosure rule, retirement industry lobbyists are turning their...
Products | April 24th, 2020 In-Plan Annuity Market Slowly Takes Shape Retirement plan providers are striving to implement new ideas and capabilities made possible by the SECURE Act even as they...
Compliance | February 7th, 2020 SECURE Act Demands Updates to Rollover Notices For example, language should be inserted to reflect that the age for taking required minimum distributions (RMDs) has been increased...
Products | January 9th, 2020 SECURE Act Resources Library Published by Groom “The passage of the SECURE Act has been a long time in the making and will have a profound impact...
Compliance | December 17th, 2019 SECURE Act Provisions Folded Into Congressional Spending Bill Passed By House News that the SECURE Act’s provisions may soon become law caps off a year of intense lobbying efforts, spearheaded in...
Compliance | October 28th, 2019 The Odds Are Split for Senate SECURE Act Passage This Year “Overall, it is an uncertain picture, but the SECURE Act is not dead in the water,” says Bradford Campbell, former...
Compliance | October 17th, 2019 Leader McConnell Pushed for SECURE Act Passage by GOP Senators A group of seven prominent Republican senators are publicly pressing Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to work to get the SECURE...
Compliance | October 7th, 2019 Congressional Leaders Want SECURE Act Passage in 2019 Based on the conversations industry advocates are having in Washington, none of the leadership in the Senate or the House...
Compliance | July 22nd, 2019 SECURE Act Passage May Hinge on Budget, Debt Ceiling Negotiations The House is scheduled to leave Washington on Friday and the Senate is expected to start its recess a week...
Compliance | July 8th, 2019 The Senate Math That Could Block SECURE Act Senate floor time is at a premium ahead of the 2020 presidential election—so much so that even legislation that passed...
Compliance | May 23rd, 2019 Senate and House Staff Already Discussing SECURE Act Word on the Hill is that the Senate may decide to take up the House version of the SECURE Act...
Compliance | May 23rd, 2019 SECURE Act Passes House, Bringing Calls for Senate Collaboration Reflecting on the much-anticipated House vote, Kevin Walsh, principal with Groom Law Group, said today is an important day for...
Compliance | May 15th, 2019 Employers, Retirement Industry Hungry for Sweeping Reforms Members of the House and Senate have put forward many ideas for modernizing the laws governing retirement plans, but so...
Compliance | April 2nd, 2019 House Committee Quickly Advances SECURE Act Like RESA, the SECURE Act contains popular measures to help Americans prepare for their long-term financial future by expanding opportunities to save...