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26 Oct 2011, 6:04 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
New Options Come With Many Strings Attached Sponsors, fiduciaries, and advisors to 401(k), individual retirement account (IRA) and other individual account plans should review a new final regulation intended to give more flexibility to plans and their advisors in providing fiduciary investment advice to participants and beneficiaries under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) and the Internal Revenue Code (Code) published by the Department of Labor… [read post]
12 May 2013, 3:02 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  Along with these economic concerns, other regulation seeks to safeguard participants and plans against Enron, Madoff or other activities by plan sponsors, investment advisors, executives or others that Congress or regulators perceive inappropriately put retirement and savings of workers at risk. [read post]
Specifically, the White House Council of Economic Advisers has determined that conflicts of interest lead, on average, to 1 percentage point lower annual returns on retirement savings or a total of $17 billion of losses every year for America’s families. [read post]
29 Aug 2016, 4:00 am by The Public Employment Law Press
Department of Labor (DOL) issued a new rule – generally referred to as the fiduciary rule*– which seeks to protect workers’ saving and investments for retirement by mandating that their financial advisers act in a fiduciary capacity when providing financial advice for retirement purposes. [read post]
20 Jan 2016, 1:02 pm by Mark Astarita
Nash has played a leadership role in the SEC staff’s active engagement with the Financial Stability Oversight Council in the analysis of potential financial stability risks posed by asset management activities and products. [read post]
3 Dec 2014, 10:41 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  The so‐called “conflict of interest ‐‐ fiduciary investment advice rule” would broaden the definition of investment advice fiduciary for ERISA plans and individual retirement accounts to try to reduce the opportunities for financial conflicts of interest to compromise the impartiality of investment advice in the retirement savings marketplace. [read post]
11 Aug 2014, 2:51 pm by Deb Boiarsky
RJR Pension Investment Committee, et al., represents a potential elevation of the standard “prudent fiduciary” rule as it had been widely understood it to govern ERISA retirement plans. [read post]
21 Feb 2011, 11:23 am by James Hamilton
A number of other significant institutional investors signed on to the brief, including CalPERS, the Wisconsin Investment Board, and the New York State Employees Retirement System. [read post]
21 May 2008, 4:50 pm
If homes are taken out of asset calculations, Americans will need to rely even more on retirement savings and other investments to pay for retirement. [read post]
22 Feb 2021, 9:19 am by Alexandra Klass
Almost all of Texas, however, has its own grid, known as the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), which does not transmit electricity outside its borders. [read post]
7 Jul 2019, 6:44 am
Our member funds include major long-term shareholders with a duty to protect the retirement savings of millions of workers and their families. [read post]
6 Apr 2019, 6:11 am
The Council of Institutional Investors (CII) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan association of public, corporate and union employee benefit funds, other employee benefit plans, state and local entities charged with investing public assets, and foundations and endowments with combined assets under management of approximately $4 trillion. [read post]
24 Sep 2015, 2:37 am by Frank Crivelli
”  The trustees received a legal opinion last Wednesday from a deputy state attorney general saying that only the State Investment Council and the Division of Investment have are the power to order an audit, according to Bruno and Bill O’Brien, vice chairman of the retirement system. [read post]
13 Feb 2015, 9:33 am by James Hamilton
Importantly, he also wants DOL to explain how it will ensure how rulemaking relating to fiduciary rules for investment advisers to retirement accounts will not adversely impact middle and lower income groups. [read post]
24 Mar 2016, 11:48 pm by RegBlog
Department of Labor (DOL) rule by early April aimed at curbing retirement investment advisers’ potential conflicts of interest by bringing them within the ambit of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA)—a move that President Obama has asserted is essential for ensuring “that retirement advisors put the best interests of their clients above their own financial interests,” but that some Senate Republicans and… [read post]
27 Dec 2012, 3:45 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  The actions and performance of parties investing in plan assets and their investment performance must be reviewed and monitored prudently. [read post]