Advisors sometimes ask me what defines a key employee. Now that Charlie Sheen quotes are pass, its not enough to respond that a key employee is one who is winning. We need to offer more meat to the definition.

The most daunting certainty of the Department of Labor's new 401(k) fee disclosure regulations may not be the rules themselves, but the aftermath of employee confusion and/or outrage.

The Form 5500, Annual Return/Report of Employee Benefit Plan, is the form used to file an employee benefit plans annual information return with the Department of Labor (DOL).

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.