Benefits

July 25, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Almost half (49%) of the over-65 population surveyed by Erickson Health indicated their biggest health care worry is the cost.

July 25, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A recent report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) indicates there is room for improvement in the oversight of the Federal Retirement Thrift...

July 25, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employees in plans utilizing auto features are showing significantly greater participation rates, increased savings and more diversified investment allocation, a new study has...

July 25, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - IBM will begin offering "learning accounts" to its employees as a way to encourage education and training and to attract new talent, the...

July 25, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Results of Salary.com's 2007 Wasting Time Survey indicate the average employee wastes 1.7 hours of a typical 8.5-hour work day.

July 24, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers who want to mitigate health care costs must focus on employee health management as well as using traditional cost-based management methods, a...

July 24, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Many U.S. multinational companies are significantly decreasing the size of their equity awards to executives outside the U.S. in a shift from traditional...

July 24, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nearly 20% of Canadians say they will not be taking any vacation this summer because they don't want to return to a massive...

WASHINGTON, July 23, 2007 - The rate of pension plan freezes among FORTUNE 1000 firms has slowed, and the majority of companies with defined benefit plans are committed...

July 23, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More than half of financial institutions in a recent survey see organized crime, increased employee access to technology and poor hiring and screening...

July 23, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Bankrate, Inc. has found in a survey that over half of Americans polled (54%) are not equipped with an emergency savings fund equal...

CHICAGO - Cash balance plans have been through a lot the past few years - Congressional attacks, a frozen determination letter process, several participant lawsuits - and the...

CHICAGO - Plans with company stock as an investment option have always been high on the target list for plaintiffs' lawyers.

CHICAGO - When Boeing investment officials pondered the idea of adding a 401(k) lifecycle option in 2005, they came up with an unusual request.

CHICAGO - Anyone who thought Congress was through with pension legislation after last year's Pension Protection Act (PPA) might well be seriously mistaken - at least if one...

CHICAGO - This may go down as the era of auto enrollment, but nothing about that participation-boosting trend means education is any less important to helping employees be...

CHICAGO - The current lobbying battle to get stable value options listed as approved default investment options aside, Susan Walton thinks making the addition would be a very...

CHICAGO - For many plan sponsors, providers and advisers these days, the devil has a face and a name - St. Louis attorney Jerome Schlichter.

CHICAGO - To hear James Clary tell it, the world of deferred compensation was in dire need of regulatory direction before the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued its...

CHICAGO - The current trials and travails of defined benefit plans aside, should plan sponsors still consider opening - or reopening - their own?