Regulatory Oversight, Regulatory Reform, Retirement Plan

Pensions: What’s new this week? April 7, 2025

A&O Shearman on 4/8/2025

Welcome to your weekly update from the A&O Shearman Pensions team, covering all the latest legal and regulatory developments in the world of workplace pensions. TPR commitments to support growth - The Pensions Regulator...more

DOL Fiduciary Rule Officially Dead

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 6/26/2018

For several years now we’ve been keeping you updated on the long and winding road of the Department of Labor’s (“DOL”) Fiduciary Rule....more

Fifth Circuit Mandate Officially Ends DOL Fiduciary Rule

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 6/26/2018

On June 21, 2018, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued its order, or mandate, putting into effect its earlier decision to vacate the Department of Labor’s (DOL) conflict of interest regulation (the fiduciary...more

Fifth Circuit Reaffirms Decision to Vacate Fiduciary Rule

Robinson+Cole ERISA Claim Defense Blog on 6/26/2018

The Department of Labor’s (“DOL”) conflict of interest rule, informally coined the “fiduciary rule,” sparked much debate when the regulations were proposed in 2015, and finalized in 2016, to expand the definition of fiduciary...more

Fifth Circuit Strikes Down DOL Investment Advice Fiduciary Rules

Ballard Spahr LLP on 3/19/2018

The Fifth Circuit on March 15 vacated U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) regulations that redefined the circumstances in which a person who provides investment advice in connection with a retirement plan or individual retirement...more

ERISA Fiduciary Rule Facing Precarious Future

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer on 1/4/2018

Since its original release as a proposed rule in April 2015 and as a final rule a year later, the Department of Labor’s (DOL's) so-called fiduciary rule — which expands the “investment advice fiduciary” definition under the...more