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Administration | April 26th, 2011

Report Indicates $1.26T Funding Gap for State Retiree Obligations

April 26, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A new report contends the gap between the promises states made for employees’ retirement benefits and the money they set aside to pay...

Administration | April 26th, 2011

Survey Finds Public Pensions Generally Healthy

April 26, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Public pension funds are reporting strong investment returns, growing assets and more than adequate funding levels to meet their obligations, according to a...

Deals and People | April 26th, 2011

Security Benefit Hires Eight Regional Directors in PRS Group

April 26, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Security Benefit has announced the hiring of eight investment and insurance focused Regional Directors for the Personal Retirement Savings (PRS)...

Products | April 26th, 2011

Van Eck Global Launches New Market Vectors ETF

April 26, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New York-based asset manager Van Eck Global has launched Market Vectors Investment Grade Floating Rate ETF (NYSE Arca: FLTR).

Products | April 26th, 2011

Private Equity Firm to Acquire Share of Stadion Money Management

April 26, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - TA Associates, a growth private equity firm, announced that certain of its private equity funds have signed a definitive agreement to acquire a...

Deals and People | April 26th, 2011

Rothschild Asset Management Hires Chief Marketing Officer

April 26, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Rothschild Asset Management announced that Michael Tamasco, CFA, has joined the firm in a newly created position of Managing Director and Chief Marketing...

Products | April 26th, 2011

BNY Mellon Provides Private Capital Benchmarking Service

April 26, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - BNY Mellon announced that in conjunction with the launch of Private iQ by the Burgiss Group it will make this new private capital...

Products | April 26th, 2011

New Tool Helps Employers with Health Care Benefit Design

April 26, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nonprofit Center for Health Value Innovation (CHVI) has developed a new online tool to help U.S. employers design health care benefits to...

Benefits | April 26th, 2011

CT Lawmakers to Look into Pension Spiking by State Employees

April 26, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Connecticut Senate Appropriations Committee has approved legislation requiring the Program Review and Investigations Committee to study the current limit on the number...

Products | April 26th, 2011

Dow Jones Partners on New Index Family

April 26, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Index provider Dow Jones Indexes has announced the development of a new index family.

Deals and People | April 26th, 2011

Riverside Plucks Plake from NISA

April 26, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Riverside Risk Advisors, a boutique derivatives advisory firm, has hired Steven Plake.

Compliance | April 26th, 2011

Council Recommends More Audit Relief for 403(b)s

April 26, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The ERISA Advisory Council has recommended that the Department of Labor provide administrators of 403(b) plans with an additional year to file their...

Benefits | April 26th, 2011

Report Finds Congregations Recovering from Hard Recession

April 26, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A new report indicates the worst may be over for many American congregations hit hard by the recession.

Administration | April 25th, 2011

Commitment from Retirement Plans Could Spark ETF Growth

April 25, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Cerulli Associates contends: “The next few years may be pivotal in terms of determining whether it is business as usual for ETFs, or...

Products | April 25th, 2011

Firm Says New Retirement Plan Analytic Platform Ready for 408(b)(2)

April 25, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Castle Rock Innovations, LLC (CRI) has rolled out a servicing platform that it says addresses the Department of Labor’s 408(b)(2)...

Products | April 25th, 2011

Providers Team up to Provide Fiduciary Services to Smaller Plans

April 25, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company has teamed with Wilshire Associates Incorporated to help plan sponsors meet their fiduciary obligations in screening, selecting and...

Benefits | April 25th, 2011

CalPERS Issues Public Employee Benefits Education to Elected Officials

April 25, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) has produced an “elected official toolkit,” a primer on the funding of public employee pension and...

Compliance | April 25th, 2011

High Court Denies Expedited Review of Health Care Law

April 25, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to bypass the lower courts and take up a challenge to the constitutionality of the national health...

Investing | April 25th, 2011

Institutional Investors See Modest Gains in Q1 2011

April 25, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plans in the Northern Trust Universe advanced 3.6% at the median in the first quarter of 2011.

Products | April 25th, 2011

Mount Holyoke College Selects ING as Service Provider

April 25, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - ING U.S. Retirement Services has been selected as the new, exclusive retirement plan service provider for the Mount Holyoke College Defined Contribution Retirement...