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The Employee Retirement Income Security Act was nearly 20 years old when PLANSPONSOR debuted as a quarterly publication in 1993.

While it's been a relatively mild winter here, it's been cold enough—and our house old enough—that opening the various utility bills has been akin to a monthly exercise...

The Municipal Employees' Retirement System (MERS) of Michigan likes to make moves proactively.

Compassion International—a Christian child-advocacy mission that says it helps more than 950,000 underprivileged children in 24 countries—strives to carry over its philosophy about how people should be treated...

In reaction to the stock market turmoil of 2001 and 2002, U.S. institutions have been redirecting assets from domestic equities.

In 1949, long before there were tracking errors, manager style boxes, or Sharpe ratios, a PhD sociologist-turned-investment-­manager named Alfred Winslow Jones devised an investment strategy that relied on...

Northwest Administrators, Inc. v. Ralph W. Cutter

It's hard to find a plan sponsor that doesn't find the ability to get answers to many issues in a single place alluring, whose time-constricted day does not...

It is hard to imagine a more daunting undertaking than the attempt to select a Plan Sponsor of the Year.

Brayton Connard is a glass-half-full kind of guy.

2008 has been a year of change in the retirement plans at Piedmont Natural Gas (PNG), a Charlotte, North Carolina-based energy company.

Ron Jiede admits it isn't an everyday thing these days for an employer to shell out $60,000 to hire a law firm to perform a stem-to-stern fiduciary audit...

A couple of weeks ago, I was watching the Oscar awards (well, it was on, I wasn't really watching). Of course, most of the awards acknowledge efforts that...

Last month, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously in a landmark decision that participants can pursue their individual claims under ERISA.

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

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. Sometimes those...

Whatever your job responsibilities, a little well-timed introspection can offer some much needed perspective—particularly during what can be a most hectic period for plan sponsors.

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

If bonds are good for DB plans, why are stocks so good for DC plans?

Although you already may have given up on your New Year's resolution to get fit, you still can follow through with your resolution­ to make sure all of...