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July 29, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The board of directors for PEGASYS, a public-access television station in Enid, Oklahoma, has approved a change in employee retirement plans.

July 29, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Clearbrook Investment Consulting announced it will launch an Implemented Consulting business, which will provide discretionary investment management services to defined benefit plans, foundations,...

July 29, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Published reports suggest that Democrats have worked through a compromise on a health care reform bill that had been stalled due to cost...

July 29, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Brian Mineweaser has joined DST Retirement Solutions as director of new business development.

July 29, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - BrightScope, a 401k ratings and analytics firm, has rolled out what the firm calls a "groundbreaking Web application for 401k decision makers at...

July 29, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. House's Financial Services Committee on Tuesday approved legislation to put an end to "compensation practices that encourage executives to take excessive...

July 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Following the recent departure of Sandy McCarthy, President, Institutional Plan Services, ING said it has further streamlined its Retirement Services structure, while ensuring the...

July 29, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram has filed a lawsuit against Merrill Lynch & Co. charging that it sold New Jersey's Division of...

July 29, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Now that all the hype and barrage of new offerings in the market have died down, is there still opportunity in target-date funds...

July 29, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New research from The Principal Financial Group shows American business owners focus on the present with no long-term plan to exit or transition...

July 28, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A survey from Sun Life Financial suggests an increase in health benefits costs to employees could lead them to reduce or eliminate other...

July 28, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Half of employers say the economy has affected the benefits they offer their employees, according to a survey conducted by Colonial Life &...

July 28, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Apparently "Venus" is tightening her belt more than "Mars"

July 28, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has agreed to pay up to $35 million to settle a class action lawsuit brought on behalf of 88,000 workers...

July 28, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A MetLife survey of 500 employees who receive dental benefits through their employer finds that employees feel they do not get sufficient information...

July 28, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - JennisonDryden, the proprietary mutual fund family of Prudential Financial, Inc., has hired Joseph Gill as vice president of client management in its investment-only...

July 28, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - SunGard has teamed up with iShares to launch a solution to help advisers and third-party administrators (TPAs) incorporate exchange-traded funds (ETFs) as standard...

July 28, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Putnam Investments and the Board of Trustees of the Putnam Funds announced that the firm and the Funds will make sweeping changes to...

July 28, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Morgan Stanley Smith Barney launched Select Retirement, an optional income protection feature that is specially designed to augment the Select UMA unified managed...

July 28, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Standard Retirement Services has released a new online defined benefit calculator that allows retirement plan participants to compare alternative pension income scenarios based...