Compliance

The plaintiff said Great-West’s conduct in setting the credited rate of its Key Guaranteed Portfolio Fund violates ERISA’s clear rules barring parties in interest from using plan assets...

While the retirement plan industry has reacted positively to a DOL proposal to make default e-delivery of plan documents the norm, their comment letters also include additional ideas...

A mental health services provider, with its tax-exempt status revoked, was sued by the DOL for failing to remit employee contributions to the retirement plan and a health...

Open MEPs are likely to come in many "models," so questions about pricing and fiduciary responsibility remain, MassMutual says.

The Republican proposal includes a new option to partition plans, new actuarial and accounting requirements, and a new PBGC premium structure.

Among other notable changes, the Form 5500’s Line 23 has been revised to eliminate mortality table options that are not available after 2018.

Among other issues, the plaintiffs allege the defendants “failed to properly minimize the reasonable fees and expenses of the plan.”

The parties have requested that the district court stay all proceedings and deadlines pending the outcome of a mutually agreed upon mediation process.

AutoZone plan fiduciaries are accused of permitting Prudential to steer an excess of assets towards its own proprietary products via the GoalMaker asset-allocation solution.

The PBGC anticipates that providing plans with three available counting methods will allow each plan to choose the one that will be the most accurate and least burdensome.

Experts wondered whether the full 9th Circuit would reconsider a potentially influential pro-arbitration ruling issued recently by a three-judge panel. Now, it appears the full court has passed...

Maximum Benefit/Contribution Limits for 2015 through 2020, with a downloadable PDF of limits from 2010 to 2020.

According to the complaint, by selecting Prudential-affiliated funds, the fiduciary defendants placed Prudential’s interests above the plan’s interests.

The life expectancy tables and applicable distribution period tables in the proposed regulations reflect longer life expectancies than the tables in the existing regulations.

Required Board approval before an employee could be eligible to participate in the SERP was not included in the original eligibility provision of the plan.

The contribution limit for employees who participate in 401(k), 403(b) and most 457 plans is increased from $19,000 to $19,500.

Their plea, addressed both to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, comes some six months after the U.S. House passed its version of the...

In a brief to the Supreme Court, U.S. attorneys disagree with the implication that retirement plan participants actually know all the information in the mandatory disclosures made available...

It has been reported that the SEC is investigating sales and disclosure practices at VALIC, a unit of AIG, including its dealings with retirement plan participants at school...

Following some important appellate and Supreme Court decisions, it is “no longer good law” to presume as a general matter that ERISA class actions claims can’t be forced...