The “other” law firm in the university 403(b) class action litigation has now turned its attention to 401(k)s, filing a $150 million ERISA class action against a large broker/dealer for its use of... Read More
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Fiduciary Governance
BY Nevin E. Adams, JD | 8/22/2016
Another broker/dealer has been accused of larding its 401(k) plan menu with investment options from mutual fund families that paid hundreds of millions of dollars to the firm, despite what are... Read More
BY Nevin E. Adams, JD | 8/19/2016
The law firm of Schlichter, Bogard... Read More
BY Fred Barstein | 8/19/2016
At a recent TPSU event for DC plan sponsors held at the University of Georgia, an ERISA attorney on the panel commented on the recent rash of lawsuits against major universities, noting that one of... Read More
BY David Levine, JD | 8/18/2016
Earlier this year I wrote a post about ERISA litigation going “off the rails.” Alas, it feels like we've gone from bad to worse since then.In the past week, a whole new round of lawsuits involving... Read More
BY Nevin E. Adams, JD | 8/17/2016
Another lawsuit has been filed against a multibillion-dollar university retirement plan – but it’s not their 403(b) plan – and the law firm of Schlichter, Bogard & Denton isn’t involved.This one... Read More
BY Nevin E. Adams, JD | 8/16/2016
One could hardly read the headlines this past week without experiencing a certain sense of déjà vu. After all, it’s been not quite 10 years since the then relatively obscure St. Louis-based law firm... Read More
BY Nevin E. Adams, JD | 8/15/2016
Another day, another “jumbo” university plan accused of not fulfilling its fiduciary duties, though this one has a couple of different twists.Adding to the seven such lawsuits already brought by the... Read More
BY NAPA Net Staff | 7/29/2016
Is suggesting investment policies a fiduciary act? How about providing an investment policy statement? And will the fiduciary regulation change that?Well, according to a recent blog post by ERISA... Read More
BY NAPA Net Staff | 7/12/2016
The American Retirement Association (ARA) has partnered with Morningstar, Inc. to develop a program that sets a new standard in fiduciary education and best practices.The IRA Fiduciary Adviser... Read More
BY Nevin E. Adams, JD | 6/28/2016
Anyone who has ever found their grand idea shackled to the deliberations of a committee, or who has had to kowtow to the sensibilities of a recalcitrant compliance department, can empathize with the... Read More
BY Nevin E. Adams, JD | 6/9/2016
Another group of litigants has weighed in on the fiduciary regulation, claiming that it will injure American workers, is “contrary to law, arbitrary and capricious, and violates the First Amendment.”... Read More
BY Nevin E. Adams, JD | 6/8/2016
With the Labor Department’s fiduciary regulation now final, your plan sponsor clients may well be asking, “So, what does this mean for me?” A recent analysis by consultant Mercer outlines the... Read More
BY Nevin E. Adams, JD | 6/7/2016
Among the assorted “idiot lights” that adorn my current car dashboard is one that alerts me to low tire pressure.It’s come in handy on precisely two occasions – one when a nail had punctured my tire... Read More
BY NAPA Net Staff | 6/7/2016
In a recent blog post, Fred Reish highlights a fiduciary obligation with which many may be unfamiliar.He notes that the Labor Department’s fiduciary regulation continues, as education, the current... Read More
BY NAPA Net Staff | 4/25/2016
A new report takes a look at the issues raised by FINRA’s “Report on Digital Investment Advice.” The FINRA report addresses the various features of robo-advisors and highlights investor protection... Read More
BY NAPA Net Staff | 3/16/2016
Living longer is only part of the new old age – the desire and the market opportunity is how to enable living longer better, notes Joe Coughlin, Ph.D., founder and Director of the Massachusetts... Read More
BY NAPA Net Staff | 2/25/2016
If you thought things were going to be quiet between now and the anticipated publication of the Labor Department’s fiduciary rule next month — well, you’d be wrong.Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-... Read More
BY Fred Barstein | 2/8/2016
Do advisors that too often tout the fact that they are a fiduciary which requires them to act in the best interests of their clients actually create doubt and hurt themselves?I once had a partner who... Read More
BY Fred Barstein | 1/22/2016
Recent court cases clearly show that plan sponsors cannot leverage their DC plan to get better deals on other services, such as health care or corporate credit, from their plan providers; ERISA plans... Read More
BY Nevin E. Adams, JD | 11/30/2015
The Five Ws (or as they are sometimes called, Five W’s and one H) are questions whose answers are considered basic in information gathering in a variety of settings. There are a lot of questions that... Read More
BY NAPA Net Staff | 11/4/2015
Writing about the Department of Labor’s proposed fiduciary standard in NAPA Net the Magazine, Don Trone urges advisors to better define a professional standard of care themselves — before the... Read More
BY NAPA Net Staff | 10/30/2015
The Department of Labor’s proposed fiduciary rule would make many changes. One of them — a change that's central to what constitutes a fiduciary act and who a fiduciary is — is what constitutes a... Read More
BY Nevin E. Adams, JD | 10/20/2015
As I talk to retirement plan advisors and plan sponsors around the country, there seem to be three camps of thought on the Labor Department’s fiduciary reproposal: those who think it will be a big... Read More
BY NAPA Net Staff | 10/8/2015
Not one, not two, but three former chairs of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) want the agency they ran to join the effort to set a fiduciary rule. They made their remarks at a TD... Read More
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