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October 21, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) have launched a Web site to help small...

October 21, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Advantus Capital Management, an institutional fixed income and real-estate securities asset manager, has created the Client Strategies Group in its insurance asset management...

October 21, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – ETF Securities announced that ETFS Precious Metals Basket shares will list on the NYSE Arca on October 22, 2010, trading under the ticker...

October 21, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A report from the Investment Company Institute with data on almost 24 million defined contribution retirement accounts shows that in the first half...

October 21, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new report from the Investment Company Institute shows that between March 2010 and June 2010, retirement assets fell 5.1%, from $16.5 trillion...

October 21, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) has accused four money management firms of violating their fiduciary duties by causing hundreds of millions of...

October 20, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has assumed responsibility for the underfunded pension plan covering 570 former workers and retirees of FormTech Industries,...

October 21, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Employers with a non-qualified deferred compensation plan (NQDCP) that has not been amended to comply with Section 409A of the tax code have...

October 21, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pension funded status for U.S. plans showed a marginal improvement in the third quarter, increasing from 80% to 82%, according to a new...

October 21, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The national law firm of Quarles & Brady announced that Angela Marie Hubbell has joined the firm's Chicago office as a partner in...

October 20, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Federal securities regulators are investigating bonds issued by the city of Bell, California, which has been caught up in a public pay and pensions...

October 20, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Vanguard topped the chart for fund flows year-to-date, according to a recent report from Strategic Insight, an Asset International company.

October 20, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Eighty-five percent of employers in a recent survey report that their organization offers tuition assistance to their employees, compared to 52% that said...

October 20, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Sheridan Road Financial, a provider of corporate advisory, corporate retirement, and wealth management services, has hired two investment consultants, Steven Kellar and Thomas Daney.

 

October 20, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Bolton Partners, Inc. has acquired Stephen R. Thomas Actuarial Associates, Inc. 

October 20, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new survey from CareerBuilder finds 40% of employers who are hiring seasonal workers in the fourth quarter this year said they will...