Compliance | March 30th, 2018 Edward Jones Fails to Win Dismissal of Self-Dealing Suit The defendants argued that a court decision in a self-dealing lawsuit against Wells Fargo supports their motion to dismiss their...
Compliance | March 20th, 2018 IRS Reduces Fee for Terminating Plan Determination Letter Plan sponsors who have already submitted an Application for Determination for Terminating Plan in 2018 will receive a refund of...
Compliance | March 20th, 2018 Court Denies Participant Second Chance at Voya ERISA Suit A federal district court judge ruled a new complaint alleging Voya Financial and Voya Retirement Advisors engaged in prohibited transactions...
Compliance | February 27th, 2018 Original Case Against NYU 403(b) Plans Going to Trial In addition, a federal judge dismissed a third complaint against NYU—naming its adviser as a defendant—as a duplicative action.
Compliance | February 26th, 2018 Appellate Court Orders Dismissal of Fee Case Against Transamerica Just as another court did in a similar complaint against John Hancock, brought by the same plaintiffs, the 9th Circuit...
Compliance | February 20th, 2018 Court Dismisses Case Relating to Acquisition of Retirement Plan One point the appellate court clearly noted is that the plaintiff did not allege that the new company failed to...
Compliance | February 16th, 2018 Allegations Against Northrop Grumman Pared Down in Excessive Fee Suit Complaints against individual defendants, however, were not dropped.
Compliance | January 24th, 2018 Hospital 403(b) Plan Faces Lawsuit Over Investment Share Class Selection The plaintiffs claim plan fiduciaries repeatedly failed to monitor the share classes of mutual fund investments and to substitute less...
Participants | November 15th, 2017 Participants Say More Information About Plan Investment Fees Would Be Useful Roughly four in five retirement plan participants said it would be at least somewhat useful to have additional information about...
Compliance | November 13th, 2017 Nordstrom Faces 401(k) Plan Excessive Fee Suit The lawsuit suggests Nordstrom should have offered managed accounts or collective investment trusts to participants in its 401(k) plan.
Compliance | November 6th, 2017 Northrop Grumman Excessive Fee Case Moves Forward Noteworthy about the case is that a challenge to fees provided to the recordkeeper via an arrangement with Financial Engines...
Opinions | November 1st, 2017 Barry’s Pickings Online: The Bureaucratization—and Politicization—of Capital Formation Michael Barry, president of the Plan Advisory Services Group, discusses issues with suggestions for reducing retirement plan fees.
Compliance | September 19th, 2017 Voya Sued for Charging Excessive Fees to Small Retirement Plan A lawsuit alleges that asset-based fees led to the plan paying $1,819 per participant for recordkeeping services in 2015.