Department of Labor

If you advise an ERISA plan, mark July on your calendar because that's the deadline for you to share additional disclosure about fees and compensation ...

Advisers to ERISA plans, including the 401(k) and 403(b) varieties, have until July - rather than April - to augment their disclosures around compensation and ...

This is a sample disclosure guide presented by the Department of Labor in 2012 along with its final rule governing its reasonable contract or arrangement ...

This is a final rule released by the Department of Labor in February 2012, taking effect July 1, 2012, governing additional disclosures by service providers ...

Other trade press created some confusion recently by erroneously reporting the effective date of a new Department of Labor rule. Let IA Watch clear up ...

It's completely voluntary for a sponsor of a 401(k) plan to use the Department of Labor's auto-enrollment mechanism. The government dangles some carrots to incentivize ...

Should the Department of Labor entertain re-proposing its revised definition of a fiduciary under ERISA, more than 50 Republican House members last week asked the ...

One of the hazards of living under multiple regulators is satisfying one could lead to running afoul of another. To sidestep a potential collision of ...

A law firm recently put out an alert stating it has encountered at least eight Department of Labor investigations in recent months. Most of these ...

The painful financial sting threatened by a violation of ERISA's prohibited transaction provisions can give firms second thoughts about entering the marketplace. Last week the ...