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Youre involved with your companys employee benefit plans. Maybe youre in the HR department in a big company or someone wearing many hats in a small business. In either case, you may have a lot more fiduciary liability than you realize and even be personally liable if an employee brings...

Kenny Rogers said, you gotta know when to hold em and know when to fold em. This week, the DOL folded them.

Bowing to pressure from members of Congress, industry groups, and the public, the Department of Labors Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) said Monday it would repropose its controversial rule amending the definition of fiduciary under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA).

As big finance lobbies hard for its own interests, who will defend the IRA investor?

Republicans on the House Financial Services Committee teamed with insurance agent groups Tuesday to attack U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) efforts to apply a uniform fiduciary standard to investment product sales.

Employee benefit plans want the right to waive a proposed rule that would require swap counterparties to give benefit plans extra scrutiny and advice.

The ERISA Industry Committee (ERIC) an employer group is asking the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to make administration of the new comparative effectiveness research fee as simple as possible.

Each plan participant and beneficiary must receive a copy of the Summary Plan Description and a statement of ERISA rights. These documents must be provided within how many days after a person becomes a participant or receives benefits?