Tag: MEPs

The bill would facilitate lifetime income disclosure, clarify the current annuity selection safe harbor and expand access to multiple employer...

Many providers have supported the moves by the House and Senate to effectively slow the creation of state- and city-run...

LIMRA finds reactions were “mixed” among small-business owners regarding Connecticut’s forthcoming program offering state-administered retirement planning to private-sector employees. 

The WTIA's partnership with Empower Retirement enables employers to offload virtually all administrative tasks.

The bill also would provide a fiduciary safe harbor for selection of lifetime income solution providers.

The plan helps private colleges and universities simplify plan administration, manage fiduciary responsibilities, take advantage of expert plan management, and...

Witnesses speaking during a Senate subcommittee hearing expressed the benefits of allowing open multiple employer plans for small businesses and...

While initiatives to expand retirement access get support, the DOL’s conflict of interest rule and the ACA’s Cadillac tax do...

The newly emerged text of President Obama’s 2017 budget proposal includes hundreds of millions of dollars in proposed funding over...

The administration would like to enable employers to more readily access an open MEP, such as those from different sectors...

ERISA attorney David Levine discusses the challenges for, and potential positive outcomes from, DOL guidance about state-run retirement plans for...

In a conversation with PLANSPONSOR, Russell Investments’ chief research strategist suggests momentum is building for “open” multiple employer plan expansion.

Two-thirds of plan sponsors say the Multiemployer Pension Reform Act will be somewhat, very or extremely impactful.

A new report from Prudential analyzes the U.S. retirement savings gap and recommends legislative action to expand use of multiple...

The 2014 ERISA Advisory Council made several recommendations to the Department of Labor (DOL) related to outsourcing employee benefit plan...

Retirement plan sponsors get a glimpse of any changes in Form 5500 filing requirements from the newly released advance copies...

The U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) published an interim final rule to implement Form 5500 annual...

July 21, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A recent posting on the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation's (PBGC) Retirement Matters blog discusses multiemployer...

June 20, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - How can the retirement plan industry and small business community work together to help workers...

April 16, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Credit unions providing a 401(k) program to 100 employees or more can save money and...