Compliance | January 24th, 2024 2024 PS Webinar: SECURE 2.0 for 403(b) Plans Speakers review what the wide-ranging retirement law means for higher education, nonprofit, health care and government employers.
Compliance | January 24th, 2024 SECURE 2.0 Will Help Young Savers the Most, Research Shows Automatic features and the saver’s match will bring more security to those currently in their 30s than those in their...
Compliance | January 22nd, 2024 How the DOL’s Auto-Portability Proposal Works Service providers could charge a fee directly to an IRA owner for executing a transfer to their new qualified plan.
Benefits | January 22nd, 2024 Will Plan Sponsors Adopt PLESAs in 2024? With new guidance from the DOL and IRS, employers have an opportunity to hit the ground running and adopt pension-linked...
Compliance | January 19th, 2024 Auto-Portability Proposal Is In The proposal would implement a SECURE 2.0 provision intended to make it easier to transfer money between DC plans to...
Compliance | January 18th, 2024 DOL Publishes FAQs on Emergency Savings Accounts The document clarifies acceptable investments, the $2,500 limit and other items for the feature enabled by SECURE 2.0 legislation that...
Data and Research | January 17th, 2024 How Plan Sponsors Can Address Declining Retirement Confidence in 2024 Plan sponsors should consider diversifying their fixed-income allocations in their investment menus, as well as exploring optional SECURE 2.0 provisions,...
Compliance | January 12th, 2024 IRS Takes On SECURE 2.0 Emergency Savings Accounts The notice outlines methods sponsors may not use to counter the abuse of sidecar account matching contributions, instead asking for...
Compliance | January 5th, 2024 Recent Regulatory Updates for MEPs, PEPs, DCGs The DOL and IRS have both issued updates for the three composite plan types.
Administration | January 4th, 2024 Form 5500 Modifications Announced for Plan Year 2023 Several schedules have been updated to reflect regulatory changes from both the DOL and IRS.
Benefits | January 3rd, 2024 Employers Have An Opportunity to Press Demographic Trend: Hiring Older Workers The growing pool of workers 65 and older is affecting how plan sponsors should look at workplaces and benefits in...
Compliance | January 2nd, 2024 IRS Clarifies SECURE 2.0 Cash Balance Backloading Test Changes The IRS says that the balance and accrual rate for a participant cannot be reduced when adopting a new variable...
Data and Research | January 2nd, 2024 Inflation, Student Loans Continue to Be Stressors for Participants Heading Into 2024 While many employees reported receiving pay raises in the last year, the majority say their salary is not keeping up...
Benefits | December 29th, 2023 EBSA’s Lisa Gomez Talks DOL 2024 Agenda The Department of Labor keeps working to implement provisions of 2022’s SECURE 2.0 Act alongside further rules for retirement and...
Data and Research | December 27th, 2023 Small-Balance Retirement Account Holders to See Significant Changes in 2024 Retirement Clearinghouse says many participants with balances of $7,000 or less will avoid leakage of savings when changing jobs.
Compliance | December 27th, 2023 What’s Changing in 2024 Under SECURE 2.0 A comparison of the SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022 provisions taking effect in 2024 and prior law, where applicable, according...
Compliance | December 22nd, 2023 IRS Publishes 2023 Cumulative List of Remedial Amendments The amendments keep pre-approved plans in compliance with changes to tax law.
Benefits | December 14th, 2023 Institutional Advisory Division of KeyBank Launches PEP Institutional Advisory debuts 401(k) pooled employer plan, with Transamerica Corp. the recordkeeper and Pentegra the pooled plan administrator.
Compliance | December 7th, 2023 SECURE 2.0 Corrections Drafted by Congress The bill will likely have to be added to a budget bill early in 2024 to pass.
Ask the Experts | December 5th, 2023 How Does the New Long-Term Part-Time Rule Affect 403(b) Plans? Experts from Groom Law Group and CAPTRUST answer questions concerning retirement plan administration and regulations.