Compliance

The national law firm of Quarles & Brady announced that Angela Marie Hubbell has joined the firm's Chicago office as a partner in the Employee Benefits & Executive...

A federal judge in Missouri reversed his ruling and gave a St. Peters, Missouri-based silicon wafer manufacturer another chance to argue that a stock-drop lawsuit against it should...

The Internal Revenue Service issued proposed and final regulations concerning hybrid retirement plans.

The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) on Thursday released its long-awaited final rule governing a wide variety of investment option disclosures, including fees to workers in participant-directed individual...

Engineering giant Bechtel has agreed to an $18.5 million settlement of an excessive 401(k) fee suit.

With a Friday filing deadline looming, a retirement services trade group has asked for more time for 403(b) sponsors to file the Form 5500.

A settlement has been preliminarily approved in a consolidated class action lawsuit against National City Corporation.

A federal appellate court has agreed with a lower court judge that an employer was allowed to drop an option allowing participants to move defined contribution plan assets...

A federal judge in Pennsylvania made a mistake when he threw out a 401(k) excessive fee case against Unisys Corporation and Fidelity Management Trust Company, the Department of...

The U.S. Supreme Court denied a request by Nestlé Purina Petcare Co. to review an 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision that the company cannot deduct from...

A federal judge in Michigan has thrown out a fiduciary breach lawsuit against State Street Bank and Trust filed by General Motors 401(k) participants over company stock-related losses.

A panel at the PLANADVISER National Conference discussed what is happening with regulators and in Congress that will affect retirement plan advisers and their clients.

An audit report claims the Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) could do more to protect retirement plan assets from conflicts of interest.

Even though the U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) has already turned down a similar request, The American Society of Pension Professionals & Actuaries (ASPPA) has also asked for...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged a pair of former State Street Bank and Trust Company employees with misleading investors about their exposure to subprime investments.

Lawsuits by workers claiming BP Plc’s North American unit mismanaged their retirement savings plan should be sent to the Texas court already handling investor claims prompted by the...

The Securities and Exchange Commission plans to introduce rules "in the next few weeks" that would give shareholders in 2011 a vote on the pay packages of top...

Two national business groups have gone to court to challenge the new Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proxy access rule.

The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) has charged that a Laguna Hills, California, firm diverted more than $920,000 in employee and employer contributions owed to the company’s 401(k)...

 For advisers these days, disclosing fees is more important than what they make or how it is paid.