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Plan sponsors warm to the notion of automatic rollovers

"New" participant options emerge for managing retirement plan distributions

President Bush and California's Governor Schwarzenegger both want to introduce privatization to public pension systems. What challenges lie ahead if they succeed?

Employee Web logs can harm a company—and get workers fired. To help prevent trouble, you need a blogging policy

Schaffer v. Westinghouse Savannah River Company

Administration proposes to revamp single-employer defined benefit plan funding

While the notion of the new Roth 401(k) is still new—and perhaps ill-formed at present—in mid-March, we asked NewsDash readers about their reaction to the proposal, and how...

Like it or not, yours truly isn't the only one getting older and grayer

Introduction

Decisions driven by many factors— but not costs

Directed trustees seek a narrower scope

To outsource, or not to outsource. Plan sponsors are asking the question of how best to handle their suddenly very prickly stock option plans

Knowing why, not just how, a portfolio fared

Consolidation hits the HRO market early, and plan sponsors could benefit

Few bright shining lines guide fiduciary concerns

Rollovers—and rollover options—are likely to soar in the next few years, thanks to burgeoning Boomer balances and new automatic rollover rules

By making a complex process simple, lifecycle funds are rapidly becoming the option of choice for defined contribution plans, but choosing the right ones for your plan is...

Introduction

New regulations, heightened fiduciary concerns, complex administration keep plan sponsors tied up more than ever

Technology fuels productivity, fends off competition