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Benefits in the News > By Subject > Ret plan investments - costs Now Viewing Recent Headlines View Excerpts and Recent Headlines ERISA Fee Benchmarking Rules and Practices Can Be Useful Even to ERISA-Exempt Public Plans Think Twice About Rolling Your 401(k) into an IRA -- Consider Investment Management Fees When You Receive New Disclosure Report DOL Emailing Form 5500 Filers to Raise Awareness About Schedule C Educational Web Page on Retirement Plan Fees Comes Online from The Principal [Opinion] Combination of Fee Disclosure DOL Regs and 'Strict Liability' Under Code Section 4975 Might Be Explosive Time's Up on 401(k) Fee Disclosure Compliance: New Potential Breaches of Fiduciary Duty Looming [Guidance Overview] Final EBSA Fee Disclosure Requirements Addressed in Field Assistance Bulletin 2012-02 [Guidance Overview] FAB Addresses Investment Disclosures to Participants About a Plan's Designated Investment Alternatives Good-Faith Efforts Already Taken to Comply with Participant Fee Regs Won't Be Penalized, EBSA Says Trends from the 2012 Fiduciary Survey of Investment Advisors and Registered Representatives [Guidance Overview] DOL Addresses Definition of Designated Investment Alternatives for Purposes of Required Participant Fee Disclosures Recent Case Emphasizes Importance of the Retirement Plan Fiduciary Decision-Making Process [Guidance Overview] DOL FAQs Address Implementation of Participant-Level Retirement Plan Fee Disclosures [Guidance Overview] DOL FAQs Address Retirement Plan Fee Disclosures (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Describing Plan Administration Expenses When Making Participant Fee and Investment Disclosures [Guidance Overview] DOL FAQs Clarify Participant-Level Disclosures, 'Good Faith' Standard for Enforcement Purposes [Guidance Overview] New Q&As in DOL Field Assistance Bulletin 2012-2 Clarify, Expand Fee Disclosure Regs [Guidance Overview] More Welcome 403(b) Relief from DOL [Guidance Overview] DOL FAQs Address Retirement Plan Fee and Expense Disclosure Rules [Opinion] Text of Comments by ASPPA on Proposed Changes to IRS Regs on Purchase of Qualifying Longevity Annuity Contracts Under DC Plans [Official Guidance] Text of DOL Field Assistance Bulletin 2012-02: FAQs on Participant-Level Fee Disclosures and Service Provider Fee Disclosures As a Plan Sponsor, Are You Prepared to Provide Fee Disclosures to Participants? [Opinion] Revenue Sharing on Trial: Complex, Inefficient and Unnecessarily Expensive [Guidance Overview] Electronic Delivery of Disclosures under the Participant Fee Disclosure Regulation (PDF) [Guidance Overview] How to Protect Your Company's 401(k) Plan Committee under New Service Provider Fee Disclosure Regs [Guidance Overview] Final DOL Regs Address Fee Disclosures to Participants in Self-Directed Retirement Plans [Guidance Overview] DOL Issues Final Regs on Pension Plan Service Providers; Health & Welfare Plan Service Providers Next in Line? [Guidance Overview] Action Items for Plan Fiduciaries: Handling Fee Disclosures by Service Providers, and Fee Disclosures to Participants [Guidance Overview] Tussey v. ABB, Inc. Shows Importance of Implementing Process for Prudent Decision-Making and Following Plan Documents Vanguard Reports April 2012 Expense Ratio Changes Issues that Must Be Addressed to Prevent Your 401(k) Plan from Becoming an Easy Target for Knowledgeable Plaintiffs' Attorneys (PDF) 401(k) Fee Litigation, April 2012 Ten Things Plan Fiduciaries Should Avoid (PDF) [Opinion] ASPPA Letter to EBSA on Asset Allocation Strategies, Model Portfolios and Need for Transitional Relief [Guidance Overview] Availability of Class Actions Narrows, Could Mean Fewer 401(k) Fee Cases [Guidance Overview] OK to Levy Recordkeeping and Investment Management Fees Only on Certain 401(k) Participants? Federal Case Asks But Doesn't Answer [Guidance Overview] Recent ERISA Fee Litigation: Key Lessons for Plan Fiduciaries [Guidance Overview] 401(k) Plan Fees in Turmoil: District Court in Tussey Case Finds Fiduciary Breaches but Third Circuit Does Not [Guidance Overview] Considerations for Plan Sponsors and Fiduciaries in Minimizing Potential Fiduciary Liability After Tussey v. ABB, Inc. [Guidance Overview] Fee Disclosure Wasn't Enough to Shield Retirement Plan Fiduciaries from $35 Million Judgment Sample of Enhanced All-In Fee Report [Guidance Overview] Summary of Final DOL Regs on Service Provider Fee Disclosures (PDF) Operational Changes in Defined Contribution Plans for Plan Sponsors to Consider in 2012 GAO Report on Defined Contribution Plans: Approaches in Other Countries Offer Beneficial Strategies in Several Areas Trends in the Expenses and Fees of Mutual Funds, 2011 (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Failure to Monitor Fees Is Breach of Fiduciary Duty by 401(k) Plan Sponsor Defined Contribution Plan Executives Say Fee Disclosure Rules Won't Help Much [Guidance Overview] Court Finds a Neglected Investment Policy Statement Can Be Costly [Guidance Overview] Failure to Monitor Recordkeeping Fees Is Breach of Fiduciary Duty Investment Costs Hit Retirees with Double Whammy [Guidance Overview] Failure to Monitor Revenue Sharing and Negotiate Rebates for Recordkeeping Fees Violated Governing Documents and Fiduciary Duties [Guidance Overview] Compliance Deadlines for Participant Fee Disclosures (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Are You Ready to Comply with Rules Requiring Investment and Fee Disclosures to Participants? 401(k) Excessive Fees Lawsuit against John Hancock Will Proceed [Guidance Overview] After 404a-5 Fee Disclosure Kicks In, When and How to Tell Participants About Changes to the Disclosed Information? The Unforgiving Compliance Clock of New 401(k) Rules [Guidance Overview] Third Circuit Rebuffs 401(k) Participants' Suit Under Investment Company Act Asserting Excessive Fees on Annuity Insurance Contracts Vanguard's Sample Notice for Plan Sponsors, Providing Fee Disclosure to Participants [Guidance Overview] It's Time to Comply with the New Retirement Plan Fee Disclosure Regulations Brokerage Company Agrees to Pay $630,000 to Retirement Plans 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. But BenefitsLink is not the author or publisher of those linked pages (except as expressly indicated). You should contact directly the author of any such linked pages for copyright or other information about their contents. Webmaster: Dave Baker (click)   ·   © 2012 BenefitsLink.com, Inc. 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