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September 24, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Aon Corporation and Hewitt Associates, Inc. announced that they currently anticipate completing their proposed merger transaction on or about October 1, 2010.

September 24, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mineral Met, Inc. (a division of Chemalloy Company) will pay $440,000 and furnish other relief to settle a class race discrimination and retaliation...

September 24, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The College and University Professional Association for Human Resources has found the median total premium health care costs for higher education institutions increased...

September 23, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) is offering health plan sponsors and insurers an enforcement grace period for compliance...

September 24, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Vanguard plans to change the target benchmark of its Total International Stock Index Fund from the MSCI EAFE + Emerging Markets Index to...

September 24, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – An eight-person commodities trading team is reported to be leaving Credit Suisse Group AG to kick off a hedge fund backed by the...

September 24, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Along with its approval of a budget for 2011, the Fort Worth City Council has approved domestic partner benefits for LGBT city employees.

September 24, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – WisdomTree, an exchange-traded fund (ETF) sponsor and asset manager, has launched the WisdomTree Dreyfus Commodity Currency Fund (CCX) on the NYSE Arca.

September 24, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has worked out an agreement with a Cleveland-based equipment manufacturer to bolster a pension plan for about...

September 24, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced that its employee benefit consulting and brokerage operation, Gallagher Benefit Services, Inc. (GBS), has launched a proprietary...

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...