Benefits

February 14, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new report from research group The Conference Board asserts that continuing trends away from defined benefit pension to defined contribution programs are...

February 14, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Of the four financial planning styles of couples identified by The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. and the MIT AgeLab, partners who practice...

February 13, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With the pending wave of Baby Boomer retirements, nearly a third of respondents to Ernst & Young's 2007 Aging US Workforce Survey say...

February 13, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More U.S. employers are talking about their benefits programs - but not as many as you might think, according to a new study.

February 13, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A report published by the Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics indicates more older Americans are continuing to work past retirement age...

February 12, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A recent Kaiser Family Foundation analysis shows that smaller increases in their paychecks contribute to workers' worry over health care costs.

February 12, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While the size of the paycheck is still important, a new survey finds that nearly a third (29%) of US workers now consider...

February 12, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Sixty-one percent of baby boomers say they are spending less, but the money they are saving is not going toward retirement, according to...

February 12, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Asked to name the single biggest barrier to on-the-job productivity last year, a clear plurality of workers cite being "overloaded," according to a...

February 11, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Schwab Gen X Money Mindsets Study reveals that many Gen-Xers are not characterized by skeptical attitudes, and instead favor a more traditional...

February 11, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fred Reish notes, "As we work with plan sponsors who are converting to automatic enrollment, we are finding that the individual circumstances of...

February 11, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new survey from Thrivent Financial indicates that most are naive about how much money they will need in retirement and many are...

February 8, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A survey released by the U.S. division of Sun Life Financial Inc. found many respondents were surprised by higher than anticipated expenses in...

February 8, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - Only a little more than a quarter of taxpayers in a recent survey said they plan to do what federal officials hoped they...

February 7, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The AFL-CIO has filed a lawsuit to block federal regulators from requiring unions to disclose more information about officer and employee financial transactions.

February 7, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Japanese marketing company has added "heartache leave" to its sick leave offering for staff.

February 7, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A recent study published by PLoS (Public Library of Science) Medicine concludes obese individuals and smokers are cheaper for the health sector than...

February 6, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A former Georgia-Pacific employee has sued the company and its pension plan claiming the plan is now improperly demanding the 73-year-old return $76,220...

February 6, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Companies wanting to increase their retention of new hires and decrease the time to productivity for new hires are realizing the value of...

February 6, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Medical cost increases for employers throughout the world are expected to accelerate over the next five years, and in the majority of countries...