Tag: EBSA

The newly confirmed Secretary of Labor, Alexander Acosta, will steer from the top the effort to either overturn or leave in place the Obama-era fiduciary rule and other...

The DOL's Employee Benefit Security Administration hopes a new initiative will help it “overcome the limitations seen in existing data collection activities.”

Fiduciaries of the Weinhagen Tire Company 401(k) Plan agreed to an order resolving the DOL's lawsuit claiming the fiduciaries allowed the misdirection and misuse of employee contributions.

Their “Retirement Ripoff Counter” shows that without the protections of the fiduciary rule, investors are losing $1.9 million an hour, $46 million a day—and $17 billion a year.

This lack of experience can lead to mistakes, ERISApedia.com says.

The Department is making the move in response to the Trump memorandum.

The seminar will be held at Circus Circus Hotel on Thursday, March 23.

A look at the retirement plan run by CKE Restaurants offers some food for thought about why the company's CEO, Andrew Puzder, backed away from the post of...

The Getting It Right - Know Your Fiduciary Responsibilities seminar will be held at Arizona State University - Skysong on February 15.

More than half of Americans believe the Trump administration will have an impact on their retirement savings strategies.

Many of the questions advisers and providers have asked about the Department of Labor fiduciary rule relate to the line drawn between fiduciary and non-fiduciary client communications.

The DOL has filed a lawsuit seeking $82,000 to restore retirement and health plan contributions, plus interest.

The U.S. Department of Labor is suing the fiduciaries of a Vermont employee stock ownership plan for violations of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.

Two plan trustees are accused of breaching their fiduciary duties by failing to take action to recover funds owed to a money purchase plan, which was loaned in...

The DOL and EBSA announced a final rule to assist large cities and other political subdivisions establish payroll deduction IRAs for private-sector workers.

The National Association for Fixed Annuities has failed again to win an injunction in a DOL fiduciary rule challenge that was previously defeated in a federal district court...

A Chicago-based ophthalmologist was accused by the DOL of improperly diverting money from a DB plan’s investment accounts. 

Donald Trump has nominated an outspoken critic of federal government regulation as DOL secretary, placing more uncertainty on the future of the fiduciary rule, according to some observers. 

The fiduciaries did not follow terms of the plan document when paying out participants upon plan termination, a federal court found.