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More than 30 House Democrats sent a letter to Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis on Monday that not only thanked her for Phyllis Borzis decision to withdraw the DOLs proposed rule redefining the term fiduciary, but also set out specific areas the new rule should address when its reproposed in...

Social Security not only shouldn't be cut as part of the United States debt reduction measures, but, according to Merton Bernstein, an expert on Social Security and the Walter D. Coles Professor Emeritus at Washington University in St. Louis, it wouldnt take much to ensure Social Securitys viability 75 years...

The U.S. Department of Labors Employee Benefits Security Administration published a final rule updating the procedures for filing and processing applications for prohibited transaction exemptions under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.

The U.S. Department of Labors Employee Benefits Security Administration and the Securities and Exchange Commission announced that information the EBSA requires plan administrators to give to plan participants or beneficiaries under its participant-level fee disclosure regulation will satisfy the requirements of Rule 482 under the Securities Act of 1933.

Fiduciary Plan Governance, LLC, a team of retirement plan specialists and former Department of Labor senior investigators, will host a seminar for plan sponsors and fiduciaries in Waltham, Mass., on Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011.

Gov. Jerry Brown will propose sweeping rollbacks to public employee pension benefits in California, including raising the retirement age to 67 for new employees who are not public safety workers and requiring state and local employees to pay more toward their retirement and health care, according to a draft of...

A new rule regulating fiduciary investment advice wont necessarily affect the way large 401(k) providers do business, but it will give many smaller companies the opportunity to bundle investment advice as part of their 401(k) and IRA plans.

The Department of Labor plans to repropose its controversial rule amending the definition of fiduciary under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) shortly after the first of the year, Phyllis Borzi, assistant secretary for DOLs Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA), told a group of retirement plan specialists on Tuesday.