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June 18, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Alabama State Personnel Board, citing a lack of financial transparency, canceled a contract with Nationwide Retirement Solutions, which provides a deferred compensation...

June 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The best-case scenario for older workers is to let them decide when to wind down their work lives as well as to introduce...

June 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - MSCI Barra has launched a range of long/short factor indexes based on MSCI indexes and Barra risk models.

June 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Members of the Republican centrist Tuesday Group have released their core health care reform proposal.

June 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Stock & Option Solutions (SOS), a provider of stock plan administration, management and consulting services, has announced an enhanced version of its option...

June 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire has dismissed an employee's charge that her employer negligently inflicted emotional distress on...

June 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) announced it has assumed responsibility for the cash balance pension plan covering nearly 3,000 workers and retirees...

June 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - President Barack Obama was scheduled Wednesday to sign an executive order that the State Department and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) should...

June 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The House Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Pensions and Labor has approved The 401(k) Fair Disclosure for Retirement Security Act (H.R. 1984), which requires...

June 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The number of working fathers willing to give up the breadwinner role is declining in the face of increased financial pressure, according to...

June 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Vanguard Center for Retirement Research reported that the use of target-date funds in defined contribution plans administered by Vanguard continues to grow...

June 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Target-date funds' allocations among stock and bond subclasses were among the primary determinants of the funds' performance, new Vanguard Group research finds.

June 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) estimate that the major provisions of the Affordable Health Choices Act...

June 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A record number of pension funds, endowments and other financial institutions will swap out their asset managers in the last half of 2009,...

June 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - M Financial Group, a financial services design and distribution company with more than 120 member firms in 36 states, announced that Erben Associates,...

June 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - MacKay Shields LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of New York Life Investments, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the assets of Mariner Municipal...

June 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Vanguard Group has added a new interactive target-date glide path tool to its Web site to help participants better understand how the...

June 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While the current recession is putting additional pressure on human resources (HR) departments to lower program costs, companies don't expect that to mean...

June 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - There are signs that deep workforce, pay and benefit cuts are moderating as businesses budget for the remainder of 2009, according to Mercer's...

June 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has voted to revise its regulations to conform to changes made by the ADA Amendments Act...