The effective date of the DOL’s new expansive fiduciary rule and the amendments to Prohibited Transaction Exemption (PTE) 2020-02 has been stayed pending the outcome of the lawsuits challenging the ...

Broker-dealers and their registered representatives (advisors) providing services to private sector tax-qualified and ERISA-governed retirement plans, participants in those plans and IRA owners ...

The Department of Labor has several objectives in issuing its latest iteration of the fiduciary rule and one of them is expanding the scope of fiduciary activities, a Washington attorney said. The ...

The Department of Labor (DOL) has officially dropped its efforts to defend its own Biden-era Retirement Security Rule, or fiduciary rule—by deciding to drop its appeal of recent court decisions ...

The question of when an investment professional is obligated to act as a fiduciary when recommending a rollover to a retirement saver has become a tricky issue to navigate. This confusion arises from ...

It’s become a tricky thing for advisors to navigate: giving advice to clients about rolling over their retirement plan assets into IRAs while also staying within bounds of various compliance ...