Compliance

Qualified birth or adoption distributions have been permissible since January under the SECURE Act, but more specific guidance on how they should be treated has only just been...

A federal appellate court found that court adjudication is not required for PBGC to terminate a plan and that retirees had no property right to unfunded, vested benefits.

The guidance document includes an extensive number of questions and answers about five key changes made by the SECURE Act.

Attorneys say the DOL is showing frustration over the regulatory back and forth on employee benefit plan proxy voting as well as ESG investing in retirement plans.

The lawsuit challenges Biogen’s use of the actively managed Freedom Funds over the index version of the target-date fund suite.

The suit alleges 401(k) plan fiduciaries failed to use the lowest cost share classes or consider CIT versions of mutual funds in the plan, among other things.

There are two proposed changes, and comments are also requested about ways to enhance the information collected and to minimize the burden of the collection of information.

The proposal sets forth ‘permitted practices’ under which the plan fiduciary can adopt certain proxy voting policies and parameters, among other things.

Older couples and women, in particular, are often put at a retirement disadvantage when faced with a divorce, a GAO report finds.

The guidance defined the ‘applicable wages’ per pay period that qualify for the deferral, as well as how the Social Security tax must be paid back.

The pro-defense ruling highlights the importance of exhausting potential administrative remedies before filing a lawsuit under ERISA.

Retirement industry experts say more should indeed be done to help lower-income workers save for the long-term future, but disagreement persists about the best strategies to accomplish this...

The complaint against B. Braun Medical reads like a copy of many suits Capozzi Adler has filed since December.

According to the lead plaintiff, fiduciary violations occurred when an inflated valuation provided by Wilmington Trust caused an employee stock ownership plan to buy company shares at an...

A multiemployer pension fund argues that an appellate court decision shields private equity firms that take on a withdrawing employer from withdrawal liability.

A court ordered Colgate-Palmolive to recalculate benefits paid to certain retirees from its cash balance plan but stayed the relief to allow time for an appeal.

Though they applaud the direction the Department of Labor is taking, expert ERISA attorneys say a new proposed rule does not sufficiently explain how pooled employer plans can...

BTG International and company officials agreed to pay $560,000 to settle charges they allowed the plan’s recordkeeper to receive unreasonable compensation through undisclosed channels.

The DOL said it received several requests for a hearing during the comment period and commenters expressed interest in its proposed ERISA prohibited transaction exemption.

Before it published a proposed rule, the DOL sent letters to plan sponsors about ESG investment practices. Sources share thoughts about what the effort means.