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October 11, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Microsoft employees will have to start contributing to their health-care coverage starting in 2013.

October 11, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) is severing its ties with Pacific Corporate Group (PCG) as part of an ongoing strategic review...

October 11, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – U.S. ETF industry assets were up 10.6% or $84.8 billion to $885 billion, in September, according to State Street Global Advisors (SSgA).

October 11, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Russell Investments has named Mike Reardon as consultant relations regional director in its U.S. institutional consultant relations practice.

October 11, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Fidelity Capital Markets has appointed Kevin J. Byrne to lead its Transition Management Group.

October 11, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Seventy-six percent of employers that froze pay during the last 18 months have either lifted their pay freezes or plan to do so...

October 8, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Invesco PowerShares Capital Management LLC has decided to close ten of its exchange-traded funds (ETFs).

 

October 8, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Mercer Investment Consulting is ending its investment consulting advisory services to U.S. public-sector defined benefit plans, the company has announced.

October 8, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Supreme Court of Tennessee has denied a claim for workers' compensation benefits by the widow of an employee whose murder at his...

October 8, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Wal-Mart Stores, the nation’s largest private-sector employer, plans to scrap its profit-sharing contributions in favor of a 401(k) match, according to a Bloomberg...

October 8, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – In the first ruling on the merits of a health reform law challenge, a federal judge in Michigan has deemed the law constitutional...

October 8, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The SFN Group Employee Confidence Index edged up 0.5 points to 48.7 in September.

October 8, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Barclays Capital has launched the Stable Income Market Index (SIMI) tailored to the needs of the U.S. Stable Value industry.

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...