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 ...

Should plan sponsors carry fiduciary insurance? With all the talk about the DOL’s fiduciary rule along with the rash of 401k lawsuits, committee members of defined contribution (DC) plans ...

  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 ...

  How is DOL Fiduciary Rule is Affecting 401k Plan Sponsors? At a TPSU program held at Virginia Tech’s Arlington campus, senior audit manager at a CPA firm that ...

Trone Says DOL Not Qualified to Oversee Retirement Industry In the wake of Andrew Puzder withdrawing his nomination as DOL Secretary,  the question of whether the acting Secretary will ...

Highly critical of the DOL fiduciary rule, Don Trone, the father of the fiduciary movement in the retirement industry, expects the rule to be delayed. Rather than furthering the ...

  Many HR and finance people that run their organization’s defined contribution (DC) plan like a 401k or 403b are unaware of the significant fiduciary risk under ERISA. At ...

(originally published November 23, 2016) What are uncashed distribution checks, and why should I care? Uncashed distribution checks occur when retirement plan participants fail to cash or deposit a distribution ...

What do you know about plan sponsor personal liability? A plan sponsor who is the Human Resources Manager for a community group attending a Plan Sponsor University (TPSU) at ...

The rash of 401k and 403b lawsuits as well as the new DOL fiduciary rule is shining a bright light on the fiduciary duties of a company sponsoring a ...