This is the time of year when resolutions for the cessation of bad behaviors and the beginning of better ones are in vogue. Here are five for plan fiduciaries for 2025.
The IRS has issued the covered compensation tables that will be effective Jan. 1, 2025. The new data is contained in Revenue Ruling 2025-2.
With the “Great Wealth Transfer” in full swing, a new report suggests that financial advisors will need to adapt their business models to be prepared for the ever-expanding multigenerational wealth ...
The financial services industry is facing a critical challenge: a talent shortage. As the average age of financial advisors has reached 57, firms must urgently focus on attracting and training young ...
The ERISA consultants at the Retirement Learning Center (RLC) address a question on whether a client who wants to take an in-service distribution from his 401(k) and roll it to an IRA should roll the ...
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) recently announced the appointment of five new members and leadership for the 2025 Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans — perhaps better ...
The passage of the Social Security Fairness Act would mean Social Security beneficiaries affected by the WEP and/or GPO will receive benefits that are no longer reduced and on top of that, are ...
Users of the database should be patient if they are unable to find specific information as the DOL is still building it out and it will take some time before it is complete, despite being launched.
In the spending/saving see-saw, many retirees are confident they’ve saved sufficiently — but a growing number are not so sure, according to recent studies. And that has implications for retirement ...
It’s that time of year—when we attempt our best David Letterman impression (James Corden for you kids) and run through the top attention-getting pieces over the past year. We hardly had a slow news ...
In the ever-evolving landscape of retirement planning, one paradox stands out as we wrap up another year: why does it take so long for our industry to embrace innovations that have long-proven their ...