{"id":20334,"date":"2023-06-15T20:09:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T20:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thinkadvisor.com\/2023\/06\/15\/new-dol-fiduciary-rule-coming-in-august\/"},"modified":"2023-06-15T20:09:01","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T20:09:01","slug":"new-dol-fiduciary-rule-coming-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2023\/06\/15\/new-dol-fiduciary-rule-coming-in-august\/","title":{"rendered":"New DOL Fiduciary Rule Coming in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/-\/746477714\/0\/thinkadvisor\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.thinkadvisor.com\/contrib\/content\/uploads\/sites\/415\/2021\/02\/DOL_Sign_Scarcella_640x640.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.thinkadvisor.com\/contrib\/content\/uploads\/sites\/415\/2021\/02\/DOL_Sign_Scarcella_640x640.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"first-para\">The Labor Department announced in its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reginfo.gov\/public\/do\/eAgendaViewRule?pubId=202304&amp;RIN=1210-AC02\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">just-released regulatory flexibility agenda<\/a> that a new fiduciary rule would be released in August.<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Gomez,&nbsp;assistant secretary of&nbsp;Labor for the Employee Benefits Security Administration, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinkadvisor.com\/2023\/05\/11\/new-dol-fiduciary-rule-plan-coming-soon-top-official-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said in May<\/a> that issuing a new fiduciary rule is a \u201chuge priority\u201d for Labor, noting that one should be released&nbsp;soon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThings have changed so much in the retirement market and we are trying to acknowledge those changes, reflect how the system works best in this new world, reflecting on challenges there have been to the rule since 2016, and trying to come up with a proposal that will reflect all of that,\u201d&nbsp;Gomez said&nbsp;at the Employee Benefit Research Institute spring policy forum in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>According to Labor\u2019s reg flex agenda, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reginfo.gov\/public\/do\/eAgendaMain?operation=OPERATION_GET_AGENCY_RULE_LIST&amp;currentPub=true&amp;agencyCode=&amp;showStage=active&amp;agencyCd=1200&amp;csrf_token=F5881B314C20F9516882948A2B6F648BB2653C06B5169E8CFE0E3821CEC6FE3DA6A2A41FE58A04FB5411DA59814BC455A9C2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the conflict of interest in investment advice rule<\/a> would amend the regulatory definition of the term fiduciary \u201cto more appropriately define when persons who render investment advice for a fee to employee benefit plans and IRAs are fiduciaries within the meaning of section 3(21) of ERISA and section 4975(e)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Labor Department announced in its just-released regulatory flexibility agenda that a new fiduciary rule would be released in August. Lisa Gomez,&nbsp;assistant secretary of&nbsp;Labor for the Employee Benefits Security Administration, said in May that&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[1],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/new-dol-fiduciary-rule-coming-in-august.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20334"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}