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In the midst of one of the more tumultuous market periods in memory, PLANSPONSOR convened its third annual Defined Benefit Investment Summit.

Employers struggle to deal with the economic crisis' potential impact on health-care expenses

On November 17, 2008, the U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) published a final rule to update, for the first time, its regulations under the 15-year-old Family and Medical...

Conservative groups declared war on governmental defined benefit (DB) plans more than a decade ago.

Here are important dates plan sponsors need to remember for making certain their plans comply with the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA).

The caduceus, a staff entwined by two serpents­ in the form of a double helix, surmounted by wings, is sometimes used as a symbol for medicine (the more...

PLANSPONSOR.com news articles that also appeared in the Upfront section of the January issue.

Each month, Bells & Whistles highlights recent product introductions that plan sponsors may find of interest.

Each month, Bells & Whistles highlights recent product introductions that plan sponsors may find of interest.

In the world of 2008, where equities­ of all types were unloved, the stocks of companies in emerging markets were perhaps loved least.

Pension policy, market turmoil, and the post-October 2008 world

Will "change" come to the retirement system?

Who are the investment fiduciaries for a 401(k) plan?

We all have them: those front-line experiences that are -inevitable when one deals with the variety—and sensitivity—of issues associated with human beings and critical life events.

Recently, Lexicographer Jeremy Butterfield, in a new book titled "A Damp Squid: The English Language Laid Bare," compiled a list of what he says are the most irritating...

Kanawai v. Bechtel Corp., N.D. Cal., No. C 06-05566 CRB, 11/3/08

A new year is, in many respects, a fresh slate—a new ­budgetary fiscal year, a new plan year, a chance to make (and, for a time anyway, keep)...

There was a time when shopping for my nieces and nephews was a relatively straightforward process. Simply put, we'd spend a day or two at the mall, looking...

For plan sponsors, 2008 was a year of even more change than that promised by the presidential campaigns

The current market volatility, combined­ with the Pension Protection Act (PPA) mandate to curb smoothing­ of pension­ plans' assets and liabilities­, apparently­ have motivated some corporate­ sponsors­ to...