Tag: Fiduciary

However, a few industry groups are still expressing concerns.

Planned events will facilitate collaboration across the retirement market to find industry-wide solutions.

Some of the biggest financial services firms and advocacy groups have registered their initial impressions of the Department of Labor’s final fiduciary rule, including FSI, TIAA, FPC and...

In an amicus curiae brief, the agency details why it disagrees with a district court's findings.

Lincoln Financial Group’s Retirement Plan Services business is making key enhancements to its Lincoln Director employer-sponsored retirement plan program for small-business clients.

Even after a previous compliant filed by the DOL, a fiduciary to the Applied Technology Systems Retirement Plan transferred plan assets to a company account.

Manning & Napier adviser services executive suggests the regulatory environment confronting retirement plan advisers and their clients is about as complex as it’s ever been. 

Experts are beginning to advise plans sponsors to level the playing field when it comes to recordkeeping fees and other recurring expenses. 

One attorney specializing in ERISA litigation suggests the pace of lawsuits has increased fairly substantially in the last year, with signs of even more momentum in 2016.  

Cerulli Associates does not anticipate a slowdown in adviser-mediated rollover activity in the foreseeable future—whether or not a strengthened fiduciary rule is approved by the DOL. 

Did you ever think so much controversy and confusion could be tied into one little word? 

In the end, none of the various proposals moving in Congress around the omnibus appropriation budget deal regarding the fiduciary rule were included. 

Many small 403(b) plan sponsors, especially, are not performing fiduciary responsibilities, a survey finds.

Using an independent RIA can mean the difference between information on plan fees … and no information whatsoever.