Fred Reish

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  Controversy Over Brokerage Windows Is Focus of Drinker Biddle Debate

  By Danielle Andrus, AdvisorOne  |  August 17, 2012

  Drinker Biddle & Reath held the first of a series of conference calls for advisors on regulation, discussing the controversy over proposed brokerage window rules and how the election could affect the fiduciary debate.

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  DOL Backs Off Controversial Brokerage Window Plan

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  July 31, 2012

  EBSA backed off on its controversial fiduciary requirements involving brokerage windows under its fee-disclosure rule 408(b)(2) that had the retirement planning community up in arms.

• Borzi on the Hot Seat, Again

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  July 24, 2012

  Phyllis Borzi is once again feeling heat—this time from House Democrats—over her insistence on including individual retirement accounts (IRAs) in the Department of Labor’s reproposed fiduciary rule.

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  Time’s Up on DOL’s 408(b)(2) Deadline

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  June 26, 2012

  The July 1 compliance date for the Department of Labor’s (DOL) final 408(b)(2) fee disclosure rule has finally arrived, and even though the final rule was a long time coming, covered service providers have been ramping up their compliance efforts for months.

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  Former EBSA Head Campbell Joins Drinker Biddle & Reath

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  February 21, 2012

  Brad Campbell, former head of the Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration, has joined Drinker Biddle & Reath as counsel in the law firm’s Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Practice Group in Washington.

• DOL Fiduciary Rule Set for First-Half 2012 Release

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  February 1, 2012

  Department says it is working on cost-benefit analysis for reproposal to ‘get this rule right’

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  DOL Still Tinkering With Fiduciary Standard on IRAs

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  January 9, 2012

  Department says it is working on cost-benefit analysis for reproposal, to “get this rule right."

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  DOL to AdvisorOne: Department ‘Has Not Signaled’ Extension of April 1 Fee Disclosure Deadline

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  January 5, 2012

  While rumors were flying that Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration planned to push back the April 1 deadline for compliance with its fee disclosure regulations, a DOL spokesman told AdvisorOne on Thursday that the department had 'not signaled' that the deadline would be extended.

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  Outlook 2012: Washington — Final Outcomes on Fiduciary, SRO?

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  December 20, 2011

  The regulatory/legislative front will heat up in the New Year for advisors, with four issues taking center stage—the SEC and DOL's fiduciary rules, an SRO for advisors and the 'switching' of advisors.

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  7 Areas of ‘Relief’ for Advisors in DOL’s Reproposed Fiduciary Rule

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  November 22, 2011

  Well-known ERISA attorney Fred Reish predicts the areas of ‘relief’ DOL will provide when it reproposes its fiduciary rule.