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October 8, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Research from Fidelity Investments indicates investors are redefining how they measure financial success amid changing confidence levels and risk tolerance in today’s fluctuating...

October 8, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A settlement has been preliminarily approved in a consolidated class action lawsuit against National City Corporation, certain of its former officers and directors,...

October 8, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Renewable Energy Initiative (TREI) is encouraging companies across the country to add existing publicly traded renewable energy funds to their 401(k) investment...

October 8, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The latest survey from CareerBuilder and USA TODAY found that, hesitant to accelerate hiring to full capacity, employers are turning to interim solutions...

October 8, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) is reported to be finalizing what could be the first U.S. standard for calculating “cost per...

George Castineiras, senior vice president of Client Relations and Business Development for Prudential Retirement spoke to PLANSPONSOR to clarify details of Prudential’s new key account team structure.

October 8, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The UBS Global Asset Management U.S. Pension Fund Fitness Tracker found that the typical pension plan’s funding ratio dropped by approximately 1% during...

October 8, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Securities and Exchange Commission announced fraud charges against more than a dozen penny stock promoters and their companies, including a star on...

October 8, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Schwarzenegger administration and Service Employees International Union Local 1000 have reached a tentative labor agreement that includes higher contributions by California government...

October 7, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Former New York state Comptroller Alan Hevesi has pleaded guilty to a felony corruption charge for accepting free travel and campaign contributions from...

October 7, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - September produced the strongest one-month gain this year in funding status for the typical U.S. corporate pension plan, which moved 4.6 percentage points...

October 7, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A new study finds that auto-enrollment and auto-contribution escalation in 401(k) plans can result in a big improvement in retirement savings, depending on...

October 7, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Vanguard has appointed Wellington Management Company, LLP and Delaware Investments as investment advisers to Vanguard U.S. Growth Fund.

October 7, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Franklin Templeton Real Estate Advisors (FTREA) has hired Philip F. Alfieri as Director of Investments, Real Assets.

October 7, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Newkirk has announced the availability of an enhanced QDIA Notice Service.

October 7, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Hartford has announced the appointment of Don MacQuattie as vice president and director of retirement plans for healthcare, education and tax-exempt (HETE)...

October 7, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – UNIFI Companies has announced the appointments of Tim Stonehocker and Jim Schulz.

October 7, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Morgan Stanley Investment Management has been granted its motion to dismiss charges it breached its fiduciary duties to a pension plan sponsor by...

October 7, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal appellate court has agreed with a lower court judge that an employer was allowed to drop an option allowing participants to...

October 7, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Forty-five percent of employees recently surveyed said they have health coverage from their employer, down from 50% in January 2008.