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Fiduciary Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) Best Interest Standard

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,...

How Has the DOL’s Fiduciary Rule Affected Plan Sponsors?

What has changed with the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) final regulations and certain prohibited transaction exemptions (PTEs)? Is it really that bad even for plan sponsors, as we hear from the many critics of the DOL’s...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Best Interest Standard of Care for Advisors #44

The Department of Labor’s Prohibited Transaction Exemption and Its Impact on Recommendations to Plans, Participants and IRAs (Part 9) - On February 16, 2021, the DOL’s prohibited transaction exemption (PTE) 2020-02 became...more

Carlton Fields

DOL Proposes Restoring Original Investment Advice Regulation and New Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption for Investment-Advice...

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On June 29, 2020, the Department of Labor (DOL) proposed a series of regulatory actions regarding the definition of “investment advice” under ERISA section 3(21). The proposed actions result from the Fifth Circuit’s decision...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

The emerging patchwork of fiduciary investment advice regulation – Putting the pieces together (update)

As anticipated, 2020 has seen a number of fiduciary and best interest advice regulations advance at both the federal and state levels. Firms subject to these regulations face challenges in dealing with rules that impose a...more

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