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CalSTRS is considering a significant shift away from some stocks and bonds in one of the most aggressive moves by a major pension fund to safeguard against another downturn.

The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013, passed by both houses of Congress and signed into law by the president in late December, raises variable rate premiums by $5 in plan year 2015 and an additional $5 in plan year 2016.

Michelle M. McCarthy is featured in the Employee Benefit Advisor article, "Experts Say Final Fiduciary Rule Will Flatten Fees."

In Stargel et al. v. SunTrust Banks Inc. et al., No. 1:12-cv-03822, (N.D. Ga. Aug. 8, 2013), a Georgia federal judge dismissed a putative class action against Suntrust Banks.

On August 20, 2018, the U.S. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Announced that David Wilcox, the director of the Federal Reserve Board's Division of Research and Statistics ...

A quick-reference card of these 2017 limits for benefit plans

We recognize that many companies sponsor ERISA welfare benefit plans and will soon be undergoing their open enrollment process and issuing related participant communications.

Non-qualified deferred compensation plans have been subjected to the 409A regulations for several years.

Increasingly, sellers of stock and others who customarily have not been named as defendants alongside employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) trustees are being sued in lawsuits relating to ESOPs.

Termination of employment is a distribution event under many retirement plans, and particularly under individual account defined contribution plans.

In recognition of the difficulties faced by retirement plan sponsors, participants and beneficiaries due to the COVID-19 pandemic, new guidance extends the deadlines for notices and disclosures required by Title I of ERISA...

In this podcast, Nonnie Shivers and Jessica Kuester discuss six common types of vaccination incentive programs

Gene Griggs and Saad Gul's article was originally published by Wolters Kluwer in the Journal of Pension Benefits, Summer 2017, Vol. 24, No. 4.

Advisers and other fiduciaries impacted by the U.S. Department of Labor's ("DOL") Fiduciary Rule should note that, according to a recent Notice of Administrative Act filed by the DOL in an ongoing litigation...

A federal magistrate judge in Pennsylvania recommended that a class action complaint claiming that AlliedBarton terminated certain employees to prevent them from reaching eligibility...

More and more employers are looking to withdraw from multiemployer pension funds. Employers cannot unilaterally withdraw from the fund, as the obligation to contribute is established through collective bargaining with the union.

More and more employers are looking to withdraw from multiemployer pension funds. Employers cannot unilaterally withdraw from the fund, as the obligation to contribute is established through collective bargaining with the union.