Retirement Regulation

This week, Cigna was again sued for fiduciary violations for using forfeited funds to reduce employer contributions to the plan, following a similar suit last month. What's surprising is that another health insurer, UnitedHealth, is now facing two similar 401(k) lawsuits.

Democratic lawmakers sent a letter to Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer, inquiring about the future of the Council that advises the DOL on ERISA-related issues.

President Trump invited top business leaders and lawmakers to a Monday “Invest in America” Roundtable at the White House, to promote the tax-deferred investment accounts for newborns, included in the major tax-cut bill.

Though PEPs have been in existence for over 50 years, SECURE 2.0 provisions and the pricing power of pooled structures is prompting more organizations to seek them out instead of 403(b)s or 401(k)s.

Last year, UnitedHealth finally agreed, after three years of litigation, to pay the huge settlement over "low-performing" target date funds, and now attorneys Sanford Heisler Sharp have asked a federal judge for $23 million in attorneys’ fees.

Labor attorney Daniel Aronowitz, President Trump's nominee to be the assistant secretary of Labor in charge for the Employee Benefits Security Administration, commits to “modernizing defined contributions plans to include alternative investments.”