The proposed guidance on the student loan match provision of the SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022 is unlikely to change much when finalized, according to industry recordkeepers and Treasury officials. Though ...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Ma.) on Sept. 26 released a report that she contends provides evidence of the conflicts of interest in the insurance industry and that supports the Department of Labor’s (DOL) ...

Morningstar’s 8th annual study on the health savings account (HSA) industry finds that the leading providers continue to make progress, but there’s still plenty of room for improvement.

Social Security benefits are taxed under certain circumstances. The Congressional Research Service has updated its discussion of the matter – and notes that those taxes could expand in the future.

A federal judge made relatively quick work of a suit that had alleged imprudence in the retention of specific investment funds — with plenty of evidence that a prudent process had, in fact, been in ...

The Retirement Security Rule, currently stayed by two district courts in Texas, would have taken effect Sept. 23 with respect to most of its provisions. Other elements of the rule would have taken ...

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Cetera Financial’s employee-based RIA, The Retirement Planning Group (TRPG), is on the move again, making its fourth acquisition of 2024 since being purchased by Cetera Holdings in 2023.

A recent call with a financial advisor in California is representative of a common question on overpayments under SECURE 2.0 Act.

Gary Gensler, the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, said during a Sept. 24 hearing of the House Financial Services Committee that the SEC is waiting for banking regulators to take ...

In its latest recordkeeping enforcement sweep, the SEC announced Sept. 24 that it has charged another 12 firms, comprising broker-dealers, investment advisers, and one dually registered broker-dealer ...

In a sign that there is growing acceptance to allowing 403(b) plans to invest in collective investment trusts (CITs), several Senate Banking Committee members, including the ranking Republican, ...