The Securities and Exchange Commission recently announced that Judge Margaret “Meg” Ryan has been named Director of the Division of Enforcement.

Amid President Trump’s executive order to advance private market investments in 401(k)s, the results of a new survey find substantial demand for such assets, but also large gaps in access and ...

The unified regulatory agenda that was briefly published the previous week that included DOL plans was a draft version that was published by accident, explained a spokesperson for the Office of ...

A federal judge has — again — granted fiduciary defendants their motion to dismiss a suit alleging a fiduciary breach in its use of plan forfeitures, this time with prejudice.

We continue exploring the impact of recent developments on employers and what they need to know to stay compliant and protected.

While recent trends have favored fiduciary defendants in these forfeiture reallocation cases, a federal judge has, for the second time in a week, refused to grant a motion to dismiss.

Responding to a call from a financial advisor in Michigan, the ERISA consultants at the Retirement Learning Center (RLC) address what a plan sponsor must do in response to a former participant ...

A new suit challenges “a scheme to significantly mislead retirement plan participants and greatly enhance corporate profits” — and while it names several Empower defendants, the plaintiffs are ...

Well, here we are again at the end of yet another workweek …and yet, just look at what has happened to these guys and ...

Most plans allow participants to borrow money from their 401(k) plans, but how do they treat loan repayments after an employee has separated from service? That was the topic of a recent “Question of ...

There’s only two months of data remaining until the Social Security Administration (SSA) announces the 2026 COLA and analysts are predicting that it will be slightly higher than the 2025 level.