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August 12, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Participants with retirement accounts through the Principal Financial Group can now receive certain account information via text messages and their personal iGoogle home...

August 12, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Great-West Retirement Services has hired eight additional internal wholesalers to further enhance the support it provides its external sales force and their financial...

August 12, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An analysis of 401(k) data by Fidelity Investments has identified key behaviors that are hindering savings for workers at different life stages.

August 12, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's private-sector pension insurer said Wednesday that it has worked out an agreement with Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. of Findlay, Ohio,...

August 12, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Recognizing the increased incidence of layoffs during the economic downturn, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has issued guidance on waivers signed...

August 12, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The latest Towers Perrin Pension Index was up 1% in July to 67.6 with the impact of robust portfolio returns tempered by a...

August 12, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The latest Towers Perrin Pension Index was up 1% in July to 67.6 with the impact of robust portfolio returns tempered by a...

August 12, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The recent market uptick continued to benefit U.S. mutual fund flows in July, as investors poured almost $44 billion ($171 billion year-to-date) into...

August 12, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - UnitedHealth Group Inc. and its former chief executive William McGuire will pay $925 million to resolve an investor class-action lawsuit accusing the health...

August 12, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Maybe the stress of work or the number of hours coworkers spend together can explain why employee complaints can seem silly, picky, or...

August 12, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - According to a new survey by Hewitt Associates, human resources (HR) departments have made steady progress in their ability to support the shift...

August 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Americans held $13.4 trillion in retirement assets at the end of the first quarter of 2009, accounting for 33% of all household financial...

August 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Despite fears participants would flee their workplace retirement savings plan during the worst of the 2008 market turmoil, many defined contribution participants did...

August 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New York Life Retirement Plan Services is rolling out a new way to attract outside assets into participants' 401(k) accounts.

August 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a move it says was "stimulated by inquiries from pension plan sponsors, investment advisors, and third party administrators", the Investment Fiduciary Leadership...

August 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Vanguard has filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for seven new bond index funds and ETFs.

August 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A San Francisco technology company that offers a health saving account (HSA) recordkeeping system said average individual and family HSA account balances increased...

August 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate panel has thrown out a decision by a lower court in an employment discrimination suit by black employees at a...

August 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR (b)lines) - The Princeton Review's survey of 122,000 college students for the 2010 edition of the "Best 371 Colleges" book also revealed the 10...

August 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A survey of U.S. homeowners by Wells Fargo & Company finds fear of unemployment and the state of the job market most influence...