Craig Hoffman

• Fee disclosure regulations prove to be a non-event

  By Andy Stonehouse  |  October 30, 2012

  ASPPA general counsel Craig Hoffman shares your pain: Nobody's reading their new fee disclosure statements. But tough rules mean the information still needs to get out there.

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  Fee disclosure rules: The devil is in the details

  By Paula Aven Gladych  |  March 23, 2012

  While 401(k) record keepers and service providers are combing through the 408(b)(2) fee disclosure rules with a fine-tooth comb, looking for potential compliance problems, plan sponsors have adopted a wait and see attitude.

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  Heading (uneasily) into the final stretch of fee disclosure

  By Andy Stonehouse  |  March 21, 2012

  In a video interview, ASPPA's Craig Hoffman says a few key uncharted areas remain in the fee disclosure pipeline, non-monetary compensation and designated investment alternatives especially.

• ASPPA’s Hoffman to Obama: Preserve retirement plan tax benefits

  By Staff Writer  |  March 20, 2012

  The DOL is seeking specific data from financial services companies that the companies say do not exist, so it will be hard to adhere to the June timeline.

• Providers of 403(b) plans gear up for regulatory challenges

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  January 13, 2012

  Like 401(k) providers, 403(b) plans must also comply with the DOL’s Employee Benefit Security Administration’s fee disclosure rule, which is slated to take effect on April 1.

• DOL says no extension on fee disclosure deadline

  By Paula Aven Gladych  |  January 6, 2012

  The Labor Department has refuted claims that it plans to move the April 1 compliance deadline for new 401(k) fee disclosure rules to later in the year to give service providers time to make changes based on the final regulation.

• ASPPA, CIKR advise DOL to extend fee disclosure applicability dates

  By Paula Aven Gladych  |  December 20, 2011

  The American Society of Pension Professionals and Actuaries and the Council of Independent 401(k) Recordkeepers sent a letter to the Department of Labor requesting it extend the applicability dates of fee disclosure regulations that affect both plan sponsors and plan participants.

• ASPPA asks DOL to allow self-correction of late deposit and elective deferrals

  By Paula Aven Gladych  |  September 30, 2011

  The American Society of Pension Professionals & Actuaries filed a letter with the U.S. Department of Labor asking that it modify the Voluntary Fiduciary Correction Program as it applies to late deposits of elective deferrals under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.

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  This week in benefits

  By James E. Green  |  September 2, 2011

  Obama tackles the NFL, COBRA gets bitten, brokers take a pay cut and fee disclosure regs coming