In a session held in the President’s Room just off the Senate floor in the U.S. Capitol, members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee on Thursday (June 26) approved the ...

Apparently so according to J.P. Morgan Asset Management’s newly released DC plan sponsor survey, which found that 401(k) plan sponsors are increasingly recognizing the need to support participants ...

The Office of the Investor Advocate at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced June 25 that it would prioritize “Private Market Investments in Retirement Accounts” as an objective for ...

Responding to a call from an advisor in California, the ERISA consultants at the Retirement Learning Center (RLC) address a question concerning the hierarchy of payroll deductions in relation to ...

President Trump reportedly has named the former chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to serve as acting Assistant Secretary of the Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits ...

The Social Security Fairness Act, which was passed in January, repealed both the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO). This change controversially increased ...

The House of Representatives late Monday approved legislation to expand the eligibility criteria for an accredited investor for purposes of participating in private offerings of securities.

The House Education and Workforce Committee on Wednesday approved legislation to limit the use of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors when making investment decisions for retirement ...

Despite economic pressures, 401(k) plan sponsors continued to move forward in 2024, leveraging the power of automatic solutions to help drive savings and participation rates to all-time highs.

Despite a lot of enthusiastic support for SECURE 2.0’s qualified student loan matching provision (QSLP match), employers don’t seem to be adopting that provision. Maybe there’s a reason — or two.

Transamerica Retirement Services has just notified some 1,300 participants of a potential data breach. Transamerica Retirement Services has just notified some 1,300 participants of a potential data ...

As the Senate prepares to consider the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, a group of 10 industry associations related to employer-sponsored benefits wrote an open letter in support of legislative proposals ...