A congressional hearing on “Regulatory Barriers Facing Workers and Families Saving for Retirement” ran the gamut from the fiduciary regulation to multiple employer plans to state-run programs.The hearing, by the House Education and Workforce Committee’s Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor... READ MORE

On Friday, March 4, a group of NAPA members armed with their own professional experience and personal passion, brought their concerns about a piece of potentially harmful legislation to key Utah legislators and successfully stopped it in its tracks. Jeff Scott of First West Retirement Solutions led... READ MORE

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Mary Jo White confirmed March 17 that the Commission will “implement a uniform fiduciary duty for broker-dealers and investment advisors where the standard is to act in the best interest of the investor.” The statement, reported by Investment News,... READ MORE

In the wake of the surprise election of Republican Larry Hogan to the Maryland governor’s mansion earlier this month, the task force established by outgoing Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) to study retirement plan access and potentially recommend a state-run automatic enrollment IRA program had its first... READ MORE

The ERISA Advisory Council has now made its final recommendations of 2014, and got an update on regulatory proposals in return. On Nov. 4, the DOL’s ERISA Advisory Council followed up on its August meetings with the presentation of this year’s final recommendations to secretary of labor Tom Perez... READ MORE

At a recent event commemorating ERISA’s 40th anniversary, Phyllis C. Borzi, Assistant Secretary of the DOL’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA), did not directly address her agency’s forthcoming proposed change to the definition of a fiduciary. But then, she didn’t have to. ... READ MORE

This week the ERISA Advisory Council turned its attention to the issue of outsourcing employee benefit plan services, how that might impact and influence fiduciary responsibilities, and even touched on how an accreditation program could help fiduciaries make more informed outsourcing choices... READ MORE

In an opinion piece in July 22's edition of The New York Times, Gene B. Sperling, former Director of the Economic Council under the Office of White House Policy for President Obama, put on a white lab coat and diagnosed the tax incentive system for private retirement savings with a serious illness... READ MORE

A new study from the Insured Retirement Institute (IRI) looks at the changing retirement strategies of same-gender couples in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Windsor decision earlier this year. That decision led to the IRS and DOL adopting a uniform definition of “spouse” that includes legally... READ MORE