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Benefits in the News > By Subject > Fiduciary duties of trustees, directors, others Now Viewing Recent Headlines View Excerpts and Recent Headlines [Opinion] Who Needs Placement Agents, Anyway? No Place in the Public Pension Boardroom for Mercenaries [Official Guidance] Text of DOL Notice Withdrawing Final Regs on Investment Advice to Participants (PDF) [Official Guidance] DOL Cancels Earlier-Published Bush Administration Final Regulation on Investment Advice to Participants Company Stock Can Be a Source of Fiduciary Worry Class Certification Granted in Lawsuit Alleging That Defendant Engages in Certain Revenue Sharing Practices That Violate ERISA (PDF) [Guidance Overview] With Lawsuits Increasing Against Pension Plan Sponsors, Individual Fiduciaries Should Protect Themselves Against Financial Risks [Official Guidance] Text of EBSA Announcement Delaying Implementation of Participant Investment Advice Regs Until May 2010 (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Where Private Plan Is Substantially Over-Funded, Participants Suffered No Injury from Alleged ERISA Violations Seven Things Every Plan Sponsor Should Know About Being a Fiduciary [Guidance Overview] ERISA TPA That Is Not a Fiduciary Must Face State-Law Breach of Contract Claims by Plan Sponsor Fiduciaries Well-Positioned to Bring About Positive Changes in Target Date Funds Best Practices for Retirement Plan Investment Fiduciaries (PDF) [Guidance Overview] California Supreme Court Hears Pension Trustees' Case Caterpillar Agrees to $16.5-Million Settlement of Excessive Fee Lawsuit in Federal Court in Illinois Specific Corporate Compliance Challenges by Practice Area: ERISA Advanta Corp. Faces Several Probes The Powerful California Pension Fund CalPERS Is Catching Flak for Not Practicing What It Preaches [Guidance Overview] Law Firm that Settled Pension Suit on Its Own May be Fiduciary Benefit Plan Protection: What Insurance Policies Are Needed? [Guidance Overview] ERISA: Life After the Stock Market Shock (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Broker-Dealers and Other Non-Fiduciaries as Fiduciaries? (Part 2) Second Circuit Limits Impact of Employer's Oral Misrepresentation of Benefits Plan California Supreme Court Justices Question Conflict-of-Interest in San Diego Pension Case [Guidance Overview] Court Finds a Breach of Fiduciary Duty Despite Clear Statement in SPD that Employer Could Amend Retiree Medical Plan [Guidance Overview] Court Says Participant in Overfunded DB Plan Has No Standing to Sue for Fiduciary Breach [Opinion] Testimony of Morningstar Director of Research: Five Concerns About Target-Date Mutual Funds [Official Guidance] Court Says Participant in Overfunded Defined Benefit Plan Has No Standing to Sue for Fiduciary Duty Breaches [Guidance Overview] Chart and Outline of 401(k) Fee Litigation, Updated October 2009 [Guidance Overview] Fiduciary Debate Lands at Supreme Court [Guidance Overview] Justices Tackle Case on Investment Fees [Guidance Overview] San Diego Public Pension Conflict-of-Interest Case Makes It To State Supreme Court [Guidance Overview] DOL Issues Additional FAQs on Schedule C for 2009 Form 5500 [Guidance Overview] Fiduciary Liability Insurance vs. ERISA Fidelity Bonds: What's the Difference? Litigation Against Advisers Is Increasing Public Employee Retirement System Investments, 1993, 1995, 1997 and 2009 (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Plan Language Sufficient to Authorize Settlement of ERISA Benefit Claims with TCA's CALPERS Trustees Increasing Proportion of Risky Investments New York Attorney General Unveils Plan to Overhaul State Pension System 401(k) Fee Litigation Report as of September 2009 Adviser Group Urges Congress to Keep 'Authentic' Fiduciary Standard [Guidance Overview] First Circuit Finds Plan Language Adequate for Delegation of ERISA Fiduciary's Authority [Guidance Overview] The Roles of the ESOP Trustee in the ESOP Valuation Process (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Health Plan TPA Could Still Be a Fiduciary 401(k) Asset Allocation, Account Balances, and Loan Activity During 2008 (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Should You Become an Investment Manager within the Meaning of ERISA? [Guidance Overview] Benchmarking of 401(k) Investments and Service-Providers by Employers: Part of a Prudent Process ERISA Litigation Current Wave of 401(k) Fee Lawsuits May Be a Harbinger of Things to Come [Guidance Overview] Court Dismisses Company Stock Suit against Harley-Davidson Mixed Reaction to Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's Pension Fix for New York [Guidance Overview] Fiduciaries Again Defeat ERISA Stock Claims at Trial in Brieger et al. v. Tellabs, Inc. (PDF) Seven Qualitative Due Diligence Factors in Investment Selection [Guidance Overview] District Court Concludes That Defendants Had No Discretion to Eliminate or Liquidate Citigroup Stock Fund (PDF) [Opinion] 401(k) Fiduciary Responsibility: Conventional Wisdom and the Law of Unexpected Consequences (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Flight from Equities in Cash Balance Plan no ERISA Miscue, According to Judge Judge Dismisses WaMu Employees Lawsuit vs JPMorgan New Guidance on Department of Labor Enforcement Priorities for Employee Benefits [Guidance Overview] Court Dismisses Stock Drop Case against Humana [Guidance Overview] Eleventh Circuit Upholds ERISA's Plan's Benefit Denial Under Doyle Test Suit Claims IGT Employees Harmed by Retirement Plan Investment Important word about authorship: BenefitsLink® (BenefitsLink.com) provides this page for you, containing selected hypertext links to pages on the web that our editors think will be useful or interesting to you. 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