Benefits

July 14, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nearly half of all businesses do not have social media and networking policies in place, despite the fact that 76% use social networking...

July 14, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The New Hampshire Retirement System has asked a court to block implementation of the part of a new pension reform law dealing with...

July 14, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Survey results from Fidelity Investments reveal more than half (55%) of current workplace savings plan participants say they would not be saving for...

July 14, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Institutional Retirement Income Council (IRIC), a non-profit think tank for the institutional retirement industry, has published a new issue brief outlining critical...

July 14, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two dozen Dallas City Hall workers received reprimands or counseling after a recent probe found that they were spending too much time on...

July 14, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Another way for sponsors to ask “Is my plan design effective,” is to ask “Are participant behaviors effectively improving their retirement security,” according...

July 12, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new study sponsored by SunAmerica Financial Group, of which VALIC is a member, in collaboration with Age Wave found a significant shift...

July 12, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Shifting and uncertain target dates for retirement are becoming the norm in the American workforce, making it harder for employees to establish meaningful...

July 12, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The results of the 12th Annual Transamerica Retirement Survey reveal employer confidence is rising and it appears to be translating into a renewed...

July 12, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fidelity Investments found that the majority of workers with employee stock option, stock purchase and restricted stock plans have sold shares obtained via...

July 12, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Luanda in Angola is the world’s most expensive city for expatriates for the second year running, according to Mercer’s 2011 Cost of Living...

July 12, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new report by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy found that a 14-year-old reform that ended defined pension benefits for...

July 11, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new analysis from the nonpartisan Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) finds that the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform proposed tax...

July 11, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Forty-one percent of employees say they are driving less or combining trips to lighten the burden of rising gas prices, according to a...

July 11, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – PricewaterhouseCoopers' 2011 Health &Well-Being Touchstone Survey shows the average reported increase in employers’ medical plan costs was 8% for 2009 and 7.8% for...

July 8, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - At the PLANSPONSOR National Conference, a panel discussed the challenges facing smaller (less than $10 million in assets) employer-sponsored retirement plans.

July 8, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - At the PLANSPONSOR National Conference in Chicago last month, panelists discussed what benchmarking means to them and what plan sponsors should consider when analyzing...

July 8, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Panelists at the recent PLANSPONSOR National Conference all agreed that before doing a search for a new retirement plan provider sponsors need to...

July 8, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An analysis by The Principal Financial Group of respondents to PSCA’s 2011 403(b) Plan Design Survey who are serviced by a third party...

July 7, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A new analysis from the nonpartisan Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) finds that workers may prefer to enter insurance exchanges over keeping employment-based...