Form 5500 – Sponsors Forgetting to File Can be a Costly Mistake. A third-party service provider might handle your Form 5500 filing, and that’s fine. However, it’s still important ...

Summary Annual Reports – Outdated and Redundant? Friday, September 30 is the deadline to send the summary annual report for defined contribution (DC) plans. However, some employers are questioning its ...

401k Loans – new guidance issued by IRS. 401k Loans can be troubling for 401k and 403b plans with administrators concerned about the burdens and costs to the plan ...

401k plan sponsors who contract with third party employers and have temporary or “leased” employees on staff should be aware of these individuals’ potential impact on their retirement plan. ...

DOL audits are never fun but they are made worse when a new administrator of the company’s 401k plan just takes over and has to put together information maintained ...

  The stress and complications from a Department of Labor (DOL) 401k audit can be debilitating to a small company. Unraveling compliance problems from the past for financial and ...

Neglect Your 401k Plan? Behavioral science has the tendency to tell us things about ourselves that we instinctively (or otherwise) simply try to suppress or ignore. It comes as ...

401(k) Plan Litigation Update A day does not go by that we don’t see a new lawsuit targeting 401(k) plans. Litigation appears to target some obvious weakness in how ...

Running a defined contribution (DC) plan like a 401k or 403b under ERISA is complicated with lots of required notices when employees become eligible with some required every year. ...

Things will be tougher for tax exempt and government entity retirement plans with more strict deadlines on Information Document Requests (IDRs) by the IRS. Examiners will now have less ...