27.09.2018 04.19 GMT+0000
Retirement plan fiduciaries should review disclosures from plan providers carefully. Disclosures provided may not be true or false; rather, they may be somewhere in between.
Federal securities law may contain some helpful insights for retirement plan fiduciaries, as they assess disclosures supplied by service providers.
Retirement plan fiduciaries rely on plan providers (such as recordkeepers) for key pieces of information to fulfill the fiduciaries’ legal obligations -- even if those disclosures reveal some unflattering truths about a provider. In assessing representations from providers, plan fiduciaries would benefit from guidance in assessing when and how to push back. Federal securities laws may provide some help in this regard.
