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October 16, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Aon Consulting Worldwide has named Yannick Gagne as senior vice president and leader of the Retirement Practice for offices in Southern California, San...

October 16, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Online 401(k), a San Francisco-based provider of full-service Web-based 401(k) plans for small and single-proprietor businesses, expanded its payroll reach in Q3.

October 16, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Responding to a directive requiring an insurance undertaking to establish an actuarial function. a group representing 36 European actuarial associations, Groupe Consultatif Actuariel...

October 16, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Montana Supreme Court has upheld a $21.4 million award in a case filed by 15 retired Montana Power Co. executives whose supplemental...

October 16, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has let stand its previous decision that "unwritten purely verbal complaints" are not protected from employer...

October 16, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A New York criminal court judge said New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's fraud charges against Henry Morris in the state's pension kickback...

October 15 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Target maturity funds enjoyed their second quarter in a row of positive returns, and on an annual basis significantly outperformed the S&P 500...

October 15, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With immediate financial needs on the minds of many Americans, 63% of respondents in a recent Prudential Financial survey rated retirement savings as...

October 15, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new online survey of more than 2,000 U.S. small business owners by Internet2Go, an Opus Research advisory service, and MerchantCircle, a social...

October 15, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. retirement income system ranks sixth in what Mercer says is the world's first global pension index that compares private and public...

October 15, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The much publicized attack by a 200-pound chimpanzee that left a Connecticut woman mauled and blinded may end up being handled as a...

October 15, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - UBS Wealth Management Research - Americas has released a new study suggesting retirement investors should segment their financial planning to match specific financial...

October 15, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Standard & Poor's will revamp its style indexes later this year by, among other things, dropping one of seven factors traditionally used to...

October 15, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Target-date funds have drawn a lot of scrutiny of late, but a new survey suggests that participants still have confidence in the approach.

October 15, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Social Security Administration announced there will be no cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) in 2010 for monthly social security and supplemental security income (SSI)...

October 15, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In the wake of a Congressional bill giving state and local governments authority to divest assets or bar investment in Sudan-connected companies, a...

October 15, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Standard Retirement Services has launched two new retirement savings campaigns designed to promote enrollment, increase contributions, and motivate ongoing asset allocation review.

October 15, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Charles Schwab has been notified by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that it could be the target of an SEC civil...

October 15, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The third quarter saw a robust 169 new securities lawsuits filed, but the credit crisis is no longer leading the litigation charge, according...

October 15, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service has announced cost of living adjustments applicable to dollar limitations for pension plans and other items for Tax Year...