FPGFeb 3, 20201 minSECURE Act Becomes Law - Part TwoIn our last post we introduced the major areas of an important new piece of legislation, the SECURE Act. In that post we described the pr...
FPGJan 8, 20205 minSECURE Act Becomes Law - Part OneThe Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 2019 or “Secure Act” just became law. The broad-brush purpose of the Act...
FPGJan 1, 20203 minComments on the EBSA 2019 Fiscal Year Enforcement Fact SheetEach year about this time, the Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) of the U.S. Department of Labor issues a Fact Sheet that ...
FPGNov 4, 20193 minFinalized Association Retirement Plan Rule Introduces PossibilitiesRecently, the U.S. Department of Labor released its final rule on association retirement plans, advertising in its press release that it w...
FPGJun 25, 20193 minWhat 401(k) Plan Sponsors Need to Know about the SEC Best Interest RuleThe Securities and Exchange Commission just finalized the rule it proposed last year about this time. Although the rule itself is quite s...
FPGJun 11, 20193 minSRIs Part Two: Follow the Bouncing Ball – DOL’s Reinterpretation of the Rules for Social InvestingIn Part One of this series, we generally discussed socially responsible investments (SRIs) and environmental, social, and corporate gover...
FPGMay 28, 20194 minSRIs Part One:DOL’s Reinterpretation of the Rules for Social Investing - An Opening for 401(k) PlansThere is a highly political aspect to Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) in retirement plans that gets reflected in the DOL rules depen...
FPGJan 31, 20194 minMEPs Part Two - You’re A Chamber of Commerce: Should You Sponsor a MEP for Your Members?This is the second in a series of posts on the U.S. Department of Labor’s proposed changes to the Multiple Employer Plan (MEP) rules. In ...
FPGJan 24, 20194 minMEPs Part One - You’re A Chamber of Commerce: Should You Sponsor a MEP for Your Members?Introducing FPG’s “Multiple Employer Plan” (MEP) Overview and Evaluation Series As a result of an Executive Order issued by the White Hou...