Legal

The DOL is working to issue a final fiduciary rule by May 2016, while industry experts wonder about the effect of Elizabeth Warren's letter on the DOL rulemaking.

Some ERISA experts think the Supreme Court's finding signaled a rebuke of the use of retail-class mutual funds. Here's more about the effects of Tibble.

IRAs give owners the option of keeping assets and beneficiary designations private. However, when people don't have a clear understanding of beneficiary designations, things can go awry.

Consumer groups and unions want to have the fiduciary standard applied to advisors who make retirement plan recommendations.

A proposed bill will create $200 million to $500 million in aggregate annual savings for retirement plans--by allowing email delivery of plan documents.

In proposing its own universal fiduciary standard, SIFMA says that a DOL proposal would lead to investor confusion.

DOLs proposal would limit the exemption to the sale of insurance contracts that are not securities under securities law.

Supreme Court attention to the RJR case is not needed, the Solicitor General says, as the court of appeals accurately ruled that RJR bore the burden of proving that its failure to conduct an adequate investigation before selling stock did not cause losses to participants.