On October 2, 2014, the Supreme Court of the United States granted the plaintiffs’ petition for a writ of certiorari in Tibble v. Edison International to answer “Whether a claim that [Employee Retirement Income Security Act] ERISA plan fiduciaries breached their fiduciary obligation by offering higher-cost retail-class mutual funds to plan participants, even though identical lower-cost institutional-class mutual funds were available, is barred by 29 U.S.C. § 1113(1) when fiduciaries initially chose the higher-cost mutual funds as plan investments more than six years before the claim was filed.” The underlying claim asserts that the investment committee of the Edison 401(k) Savings Plan (the Plan), a defined contribution plan sponsored by Edison International, breached its fiduciary duty, although the issue presented to the Supreme Court focuses on the statute of limitations applicable to that claim. The Plan’s investment committee selected a variety of funds...
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