Retirement Regulation

The number of missing retirement plan participants has grown as workers have become more mobile.

The retirement reform bill reduces small employers' fiduciary liability, simplifies 401(k) safe harbor rules, and much more.

The Department of Labor's auditors are pushing harder on plan sponsors to make better efforts to find missing terminated vested participants.

The SEC says Ameriprise did not ascertain whether the clients were eligible for the waived sales fees and did not disclose that the higher sales loads would negatively impact investment returns.

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In effect, the DOL could craft a new sellers' exemption that says an advisor or broker is in compliance with the fiduciary rule if they are in compliance with the standards ultimately produced by the SEC.

A report found that the Social Security Administration not only lacked a way to alert employees as to when delaying benefits was in an applicant's best interest, but even when they knew it was, employees were misadvising them.

The fiduciary rule has only been partially implemented but it's already discouraged annuity recommendations to qualified retirement accounts, according to LIMRA.