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The only certainty there is in the coming year is uncertainty.

Fred Reish, well-known among advisors as the ERISA guru, recently predicted areas of relief that the Department of Labors Employee Benefits Security Administration will provide when it reproposes its rule amending the definition of fiduciary early next year.

The recessions impact on companies human resource budgets coupled with continued uncertainty over health care reform has spawned a whole new slew of objections that benefits professionals must overcome to get new businessor stop existing clients from inappropriately scaling back services.

Transamerica Retirement Services will host a webinar for financial advisors and third-party administrators at 12 p.m. EST on Dec. 6.

Although the regulations have been withdrawn, it's likely that the re-issued regulations will be substantially similar. As such, it's important to have a good understanding of the DOLs approach in order to be fully prepared when the new rules are in place.

Plan sponsors are increasingly looking for investment advisors who can shoulder some of the fiduciary burden related to offering employee retirement plans. More frequently they are turning to companies that offer fiduciary coverage under section 3(21)(A) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.

Overdiversification threatens the long-term returns of employee retirement accounts, but plan sponsors can help with better plan designs.

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...