Compliance

December 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Las Vegas man who allegedly reaped about $175 million in profits from improper late trading and market timing of Alliance Capital Management...

December 22, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An Ontario court has determined that the Canadian government has discriminated against same-sex couples by denying pension benefits to survivors whose partners died...

December 22, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Benefits managers who may have questions about the workings of the new Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) may benefit from guidance from the Internal...

December 19, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will be requiring companies to provide more disclosure to retiring workers about their pension benefit options.

December 19, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The latest version of an Internal Revenue Service fringe benefits publication includes an increase in the largest benefit for qualified parking that a...

December 17, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Already battered by having to assume responsibility for a long line of ailing steel company pension plans, the federal pension insurer announced it...

December 17, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - To help mutual fund shareholders understand how to get "breakpoint" discounts, federal officials have proposed forcing fund companies to more clearly explain their...

December 16, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's pension insurer on Tuesday blamed $77 million in 2002 lump-sum payouts as a contributing factor to an "extraordinarily" underfunded Kaiser Aluminum...

December 15, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Ohio legislators have adjourned for the holidays, leaving open, for the moment at least, the issue of pension plan reforms in the Buckeye...

December 24, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Defined contribution plan sponsors who are making choices about offering annuities as a distribution option should check out some new federal guidance.

December 24, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Retail giant Wal-Mart Stores has agreed to pay $220,000 to a woman who claimed the company discriminated against her by refusing to hire...

December 24, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) says group health plans are required to make COBRA coverage available to spouses who lose coverage due to...

December 12, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal court has dismissed a participant suit that had charged his employer with wrongfully cutting two investment options from its 401(k) plan.

December 12, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that an employer can look through an employee's e-mail if stored on the employer's...

December 12, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - California's highest court has let stand a lower court ruling declaring unconstitutional the state's plan to borrow nearly $2 billion for employee pensions...

December 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Massachusetts state Senate is turning to the state Supreme Judicial Court to clarify whether a sweeping civil union bill is in line...

December 10, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Congress failed to pass a deficit reduction contribution (DRC) pension relief bill before adjourning for the year, meaning any measure of...

October 24, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - 401(k) plan fiduciaries didn't breach their ERISA-imposed duties by not divesting their plan of employer stock before a public revelation that a company...

October 24, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An ex-New Jersey sheriff's pension calculation will not include his $98,325 salary after he pleaded guilty to misdeeds such as using his deputies...

October 24, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Tyco International will pay $5 million to set up an investor education program and an academic corporate governance course as part of a...