by admin | Feb 12, 2020 | Uncategorized
The demise of the confusing Investment Fiduciary Advice Rule has allowed the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) to focus on other enforcement priorities. That’s good news for human resources executives and risk managers because those areas of focus are...
by admin | Feb 3, 2020 | Uncategorized
Article Manufacturing, banking, higher education, and healthcare are just a few of the industry sectors that must comply with employee benefit plan fiduciary rules. That makes a check up on your plan’s operations an imperative. What is a fiduciary...
by admin | Feb 3, 2020 | Uncategorized
The evidence is mounting. Thousands of participants in ERISA retirement plans are overpaying for plan services. As a result, a growing number of employers are paying fines under a U.S. Department of Labor enforcement initiative.* In an attempt to stem the tide of...
by Roland|Criss | Jan 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
The new ERISA Conflict of Interest rule specifically targets IRA rollovers from retirement plans. The rule makes the recommendation of a distribution of a plan participant’s money to an IRA (a rollover) a fiduciary act. The potential impact requires proper...
by Roland|Criss | Sep 24, 2018 | Retirement Plans, Uncategorized
A crisis among retirement plan sponsoring enterprises is unfolding. The challenge facing their leaders is to ensure that operations managers are equipped with the training, guidelines, controls, and tools that elevate fiduciary risk management to its proper priority....
by Roland|Criss | Oct 31, 2017 | Retirement Plans, Uncategorized
Tip for October 2017 401(k) and 403(b)-like retirement plans face the possibility of serious trouble when plan participants rollover their account balances to individual retirement accounts (“IRA”). Your fiduciary management system needs to embrace IRA...