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April 27, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Marsh U.S. Consumer, a broker and administrator of affinity insurance and membership product programs, has introduced Marsh HSA Services to provide health savings...

April 27, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A new Putnam Investments survey found 14% of Americans plan to fully fund an IRA in 2010, down sharply from the 23% seen...

April 27, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service announced that the new health reform law immediately allows employers with cafeteria plans to permit employees to begin making...

April 27, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pension plan sponsors in the Netherlands are facing their second funding challenge in the past decade, this one more severe than the first,...

April 27, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More than a third of the nation’s employers have at least some employees for whom coverage would be considered “unaffordable” under the newly...

April 27, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Millennium Trust Company announced that J.P. Morgan Retirement Plan Services has chosen Millennium Trust's Automatic Rollover Solution for its clients and the clients' employees.

April 27, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A bill that sailed through the Massachusetts House of Representatives on a unanimous vote would give cities and towns in the state until 2040...

April 27, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While long-term care costs continue to rise nationally, the cost for in-home care is rising at a much slower pace, according to Genworth’s...

April 27, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Plan sponsors replaced managers who performed exceptionally poorly relative to their benchmarks during the market decline and did not start recovering when the...

April 27, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - To help employers more effectively manage their employees’ absences, The Hartford has launched a single-company solution to track and manage both occupational and...

April 27, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Washington Redskins football organization will freeze defined benefit pension accounts for non-player/coach personnel, but will continue in the league's 401(k), which includes an employer...

April 27, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri has approved a $925,000 settlement of a lawsuit claiming NovaStar Financial continued to...

April 27, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A decision to partly revive New York Life's status as a 403(b) vendor will help about 100 state employees in Delaware avoid the...

April 26, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.’s auditor Ernst & Young LLP was added as a defendant in a lawsuit seeking to recover money from former...

April 26, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Franklin Templeton Investments and the New Jersey Higher Education Student Assistance Authority (HESAA) have announced additional investment options for the Franklin Templeton 529 College...

April 26, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal judge in California did a perfectly acceptable job in certifying as a class action a gender discrimination case against Wal-Mart, a...

April 23, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - U.S. institutional plan sponsors reported moderate gains for the first quarter of 2010, with a median return of 3.5% for plans in the...

April 26, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) said it wants to buy a service that will systematically assess penalties and interest when encountering...

April 26, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – President Obama’s nomination of Joshua Gotbaum as director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) is scheduled for a U.S. Senate committee vote...

April 26, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - For the first time since Cogent Research has been tracking investor allocations, it says wealthy Americans now hold more assets in IRAs than...