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Things I Worry About (10): FINRA Enforcement and Senior Investors (2)

Key Takeaways FINRA’s 2025 Annual Regulatory Oversight Report 2025-annual-regulatory-oversight-report.pdf included a focus on issues related to retirees and senior investors. The Report provides guidance to broker-dealers about the priorities of FINRA in its regulation, supervision and enforcement programs for broker-dealers. In other words, it is one of FINRA’s ways of

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Things I Worry About (9): FINRA Enforcement and Senior Investors (1)

Key Takeaways FINRA’s 2024 Annual Regulatory Oversight Report 2024 FINRA Annual Regulatory Oversight Report | FINRA.org included a focus on issues related to retirees and senior investors. The Report provides guidance to broker-dealers about the priorities of FINRA in its regulation, supervision and enforcement programs for broker-dealers. In other words,

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Things I Worry About (8): DOL Investigations and Unsuspecting Plan Sponsors (2)

Key Takeaways The Employee Benefit Security Administration (EBSA) of the US Department of Labor (DOL) recently released its Fact Sheet: EBSA Restores Nearly $1.4 Billion to Employee Benefit Plans, Participants, and Beneficiaries: ebsa-monetary-recoveries.pdf One of the targets of their investigation is “missing participants”. The DOL refers to that program as

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Things I Worry About (7): DOL Investigations and Unsuspecting Plan Sponsors

Key Takeaways The Employee Benefit Security Administration (EBSA) of the US Department of Labor (DOL) recently released its Fact Sheet: EBSA Restores Nearly $1.4 Billion to Employee Benefit Plans, Participants, and Beneficiaries: ebsa-monetary-recoveries.pdf The Fact Sheet describes the different EBSA programs that can recover money for participants, and the numbers

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ERISA Moments Ep. 30: DOL Investigations: Priorities for 2025

Take a quick dive into the exciting world of ERISA with Faegre Drinker benefits and executive compensation attorneys Fred Reish and Brad Campbell. In this quick-hit series of updates, Fred and Brad offer a high-level view of current trends and recent ERISA developments. See the newest episode, DOL Investigations: Priorities

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