Latest News

September 23, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a bill which includes provisions allowing retirement plan participants to roll over their assets into in-plan...

September 23, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Attorney Edward J. Rayner will join the Pryor Cashman LLP firm as partner and chair of the Executive Compensation, ERISA and Employee Benefits...

September 23, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Investors now have expanded access to 18 USAA mutual funds through the online E*TRADE Securities investment platform.

September 23, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Assets in defined contribution plans will see double digit growth from 2011 to 2015, according to Financial Research Corporation's (FRC's) FRC Monitor —...

September 23, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Fifty-four percent of jobless workers in a new poll who have received an employment offer say the salary was more than 25% below...

September 23, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New York City’s pension fund for civil-service employees has fired a money management firm headed by former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission chairman...

September 23, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – An employer breached its fiduciary duty to an employee by not taking additional steps to help her obtain copies of two resource tools...

September 23, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A group representing Catholic Bishops has asked the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to not require coverage of contraception or sterilization...

September 23, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Deidre A. Grossman, an Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) litigator, has joined the Littler Mendelson, P.C. law firm as a shareholder in...

September 23, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The ranks of Americans with employment-based health insurance declined by more than 2% last year, according to a new Employee Benefit Research Institute...

September 23, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Long-term fund flows reached $59 billion in July worldwide, of which 90% went to fixed income products, according to Strategic Insight (SI).

September 22, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Prudential Retirement on Wednesday announced a reshuffling of its client-facing service personnel into 10 “key account” teams based in three U.S. regions.

September 22, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Social Investment Forum (SIF) is applauding the introduction of the Federal Employees Responsible Investment Act (FERIA), which allows federal employees to select a...

September 22, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Accounting measures of the liabilities of defined benefit (DB) pension plans in most developed economies have seen marked liability increases sparked by declining...

September 22, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Goldleaf Partners, a national retirement and employee benefits administration and consulting firm, has announced three executive appointments.

September 22, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Transamerica Retirement Services has hired Andrew Larsen as regional vice president in the company’s Southern Region.

September 22, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Morningstar has launched a new tool to help independent financial advisers create their own custom investment performance reports. 

September 22, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) –The Hartford Mutual Funds has announced permanent mutual fund expense reductions for six fixed-income funds, effective November 1, 2010.  

September 22, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The post-retirement spend-down segment of retirement planning is experiencing a wave of innovations, according to a new collection of articles released by Mercer.

September 22, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Bonus payouts declined significantly for almost all management positions at architecture, engineering (A/E), and environmental consulting firms even though manager salaries remained steady...