Legislators have less than a week to approve the agreement before the default deadline next Monday, June 5.
Given the many lawsuits filed against retirement plan sponsors in recent years for breaching their fiduciary duties, here are the steps plan committees should be taking to mitigate risk.
The firm miscalculated annual yield and income for nine funds on approximately 8.5 million statements. It also failed to act promptly when customers noticed something was wrong.
Here's a list of the costs that have become qualified expenses for 529 plans in the past decade.
The SEC chair drew the ire of fund officials when he suggested that the agency looks out for investors while the industry looks out for itself.
Shawn Edward Good pleaded guilty to stealing $7.2 million from retirees and used the money to pay off earlier investors and to fund a lavish lifestyle.
As talks on the debt ceiling continue, the Wells Fargo Investment Institute looks at how the situation could affect Treasury securities, other fixed-income instruments and the stock market.
Those due to receive their Social Security benefits next week are retirees aged 88 and older, along with low-income individuals with disabilities.
The odds of passing the X-date without an increase in the debt is around 25% and rising, according to JPMorgan.
The approval allows Prometheum Ember Capital to safekeep digital asset securities on behalf of individual and institutional clients as a qualified custodian.
The actions illustrate Finra’s continuing crackdown on compliance shortcomings related to the conduct standard that was implemented in June 2020.
The American Council of Life Insurers included questions in the poll that it says show a DOL fiduciary rule would hinder access to retirement advice.
The dispute revolved around an account that was liquidated following the sharp market downturn at the beginning of the Covid pandemic.
"I call it B-D/IA arbitrage," Finra's Christopher Kelly said, describing his concern about advisors flouting the boundaries between charging clients fees and commissions.
It's time for the financial services industry to rethink its rules when it comes to offsetting fees.
'We do it in a way where they're virtually unreadable,' Eric Noll, CEO of Context Capital Partners, said of disclosures at the Finra annual meeting.
Advisors shrug off Washington's noisy political spat as more of the same, anticipating a dramatic last-minute deal to increase the debt limit.
The watchdog agency teed up a sweeping proposal in March 2022 intended to standardize the types of disclosures public companies make about greenhouse gas reduction goals.
The Republican AGs are examining net-zero goals that insurance companies have agreed to as part of an industry group.
The disclosures that MML Investors Services delayed making included customer complaints and arbitrations, criminal charges and bankruptcies.
