Compliance | October 2nd, 2008 International Paper Fee Suit Certified as Class Action October 2, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois has granted class action certification...
Compliance | October 1st, 2008 Boeing 401(k) Fee Case Sanctioned as Class Action October 1, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Illinois has sanctioned an excessive 401(k) fee lawsuit against Boeing Co....
Compliance | September 29th, 2008 Caterpillar Fee Suit Survives First Legal Hurdle September 24, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has cleared the way for participants in Caterpillar's 401(k) plan to pursue...
Products | September 23rd, 2008 Fiduciary Benchmarks Launches New Service for NRP Clients September 23, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fiduciary Benchmarks, Inc. (FBi) announced it has partnered with National Retirement Partners (NRP) to offer...
Compliance | September 19th, 2008 Advice, Participant Fee Disclosure Proposals Covered in EBSA Webcast September 19, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) will host a free webcast...
Benefits | September 17th, 2008 Regulator Warns Senators Not To Impede DoL Fee Disclosure Rulemaking September 17, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal regulator on Wednesday urged U.S. Senate lawmakers not to interfere with the U.S....
Benefits | September 12th, 2008 ABA Says DoL Didn't 'Strike the Right Balance' September 12, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The American Bankers Association (ABA), in a letter to the Department of Labor (DoL), expressed...
Benefits | September 12th, 2008 ABA Says DoL Didn't 'Strike the Right Balance' September 12, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The American Bankers Association (ABA), in a letter to the Department of Labor (DoL), expressed...
Benefits | September 11th, 2008 The First Step is Understanding September 11, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As plan sponsors prepare for new fee disclosure regulations, Spectrem Group has found they are...
Benefits | September 9th, 2008 Trade Groups Weigh in on EBSA Fee Disclosure Proposal September 9, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) fiduciary should not be held liable for incorrect...
Compliance | September 3rd, 2008 Judge Turns Away Principal Revenue Sharing Case Class Action Bid September 3, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Faced with overseeing a class action lawsuit that could have represented as many as 57,000...
Benefits | August 27th, 2008 Benefits of Fee Disclosure Outweigh Costs August 27, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new research paper from the Rotman International Centre for Pension Management suggests that the...
Benefits | August 25th, 2008 Fees Surpass Service as Top Reason to Switch Providers August 25, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Spectrem Group announced that for the first time since it began tracking data in 1989,...
Compliance | August 15th, 2008 Nationwide Turned Back on Revenue Sharing Countersuit Attempt August 15, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Connecticut has ruled that while Nationwide Financial Services can legally countersue...
Benefits | August 8th, 2008 Not Fee Sure… Sponsors Lack Confidence in Fee Disclosures August 8, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nearly one-fourth of plan sponsors surveyed by Mercer express a lack of confidence that fees...
Benefits | July 27th, 2008 PD08: Reasonable Doubts According to John Low, Regional VP at Nationwide Financial, when most people think about benchmarking, the first thing that comes...
Benefits | July 27th, 2008 PD08: Getting Ready for New Fee Disclosure Requirements New fee disclosure requirements are changing the way plan sponsors and providers do business; regulations are being evaluated as plan...
Benefits | July 27th, 2008 PD08: Meaningful Comparisons: How to Benchmark Your Programs When deciding to benchmark retirement programs, plan sponsors are faced with considerations of why, when, and how to do it.
Benefits | July 27th, 2008 PD08: Duty Bound: Best Practices for Plan Fiduciaries Within the retirement services community, the duties and responsibilities implicit for fiduciaries are often unclear, leading some to be unsure...
Benefits | July 27th, 2008 PD08. Understanding an ERISA Account Plan sponsors and advisers know them by many names - ranging from "ERISA budgets" to "fee-capture accounts" - but many...