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This Week From the Hill (March 17 – 23, 2024)

Each week while Congress is in session, our Policy team delivers a key update to highlight a topical benefits, health, or retirement news item from the Hill, such as a newly introduced bill, a summary of a committee hearing,...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

The New Fiduciary Rule (23): The Final Rule Has Been Sent to the OMB

In November 2023, the U.S. Department of Labor released its package of proposed changes to the regulation defining fiduciary advice and to the exemptions for conflicts and compensation for investment recommendations to...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

The DOL’s Regulatory Agenda and a New Fiduciary Rule

The DOL has not appealed the decision in the Florida Federal District Court that vacated its fiduciary “re-interpretation.” That re-interpretation, in effect, said that ongoing investment advice to a rollover IRA could be...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Best Interest Standard of Care for Advisors #37

The Department of Labor’s Proposed Prohibited Transaction Exemption and its Impact on Recommendations to Plans, Participants and IRAs (Part 2) - On July 7, 2020, the DOL issued a proposed prohibited transaction exemption...more

Morgan Lewis - ML Benefits

DOL ERISA Enforcement Remains Robust, but Will New OMB Memo Ease the Burden from DOL Investigations?

The US Department of Labor (DOL) released its 2020 statistics on ERISA enforcement activities on October 27, affirming that the agency’s investigations remain robust. In sharing the statistics, the DOL not only boasted that...more

Ary Rosenbaum - The Rosenbaum Law Firm P.C.

We will get PEP guidance soon

With less than six months before the launch of pooled employer plans (PEPs) comes word that the Department of Labor (DOL) has some proposed regulations on tap....more

Ary Rosenbaum - The Rosenbaum Law Firm P.C.

DOL is “plotting” a new fiduciary rule

When a government agency is plotting, they have to do it in public and it’s just a matter of when you find the clue. The Department of Labor (DOL) has filed a draft regulation called “Improving Investment Advice for...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

ERISA Newsletter - Third Quarter 2017

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Editor's Overview - As we have observed on other occasions, the ERISA class action plaintiffs' bar has, for several years now, honed in on 401(k) plan fiduciaries and their decisions to select and retain investment options...more

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DOL to Postpone Deadline for Fiduciary Rule

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The Department of Labor has received OMB certification, and sought expedited notice-and-comment, for a rule change that would postpone the full implementation deadline for its Fiduciary Rule from January 1, 2018 until July 1,...more

McDermott Will & Emery

DOL Proposes 60-Day Delay of Fiduciary Rule in Response to White House Directive

The future of the fiduciary rule—originally set to be implemented this upcoming April—remains uncertain after the White House directed the United States Department of Labor (DOL) to reevaluate, defer implementation and...more

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USDOL Prevails in Kansas in Another Decision on Fiduciary Rule

On February 17, 2017, a federal district Court in Kansas upheld the U.S. Department of Labor’s conflict of interest rule and related exemptions in a suit brought by Market Synergy Group, Inc. This ruling on the merits follows...more

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IRS Provides Guidance on New Form 5500 Compliance Questions

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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has provided clarification regarding new “compliance questions,” principally for retirement plans, that appear on the 2015 Forms 5500 and 5500-SF. These questions should not be answered....more

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DOL Sends Proposed Conflict of Interest Rule to OMB for Review

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The White House backs a “fiduciary rule” for IRAs. The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has sent its proposed “Conflict of Interest Rule-Investment Advice” to the president’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for...more

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