Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)

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 ...

These are the new procedures as of December 27, 2011 for filing for an exemption from a prohibited transaction under ERISA.

This is a model disclosure form from the Department of Labor related to its 2011 final rule on investment advice to 401(k) and IRA participants.