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Wells Fargo Facing Suit by Employees Over Retirement Funds Management

Wells Fargo & Co. faces a new U.S. lawsuit claiming that it funneled more than $3 billion of employee retirement savings into expensive, underperforming proprietary mutual funds to enrich itself. The proposed class-action lawsuit, filed Nov. 22 in federal court …

New York’s Columbia University Faces $100M Lawsuit for Mismanaging Retirement Plan

Columbia University was accused on Tuesday of mismanaging its retirement plan in a federal civil lawsuit that alleges $100 million in damages. The suit is the latest to target a major university’s retirement plan management and to bring under scrutiny …

Supreme Court Favors Employees in Retirement Plan Monitoring Claim

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday revived claims made by Edison International employees who accused the utility of favoring higher-cost mutual funds over lower-cost ones in its retirement plan. On a 9-0 vote, the court threw out an appeals court …