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June 10, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Great-West Retirement Services announced today that it has notified the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) of its intent to sponsor a 403(b) prototype plan...

June 10, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Principal Financial Group has unveiled an online, user-friendly tool to help retirement plan sponsors comply with the new rules for reporting fair...

June 10, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mercer and Putnam Investments announced Wednesday that Mercer will now provide all plan services for existing Taft-Harley clients that had been serviced by...

June 10, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Standard Insurance Company, a subsidiary of StanCorp Financial Group, Inc., announced the launch of its new Absence Management Services for employers.

June 10, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a sale that became final on June 10, the bulk of the assets of Chrysler LLC were acquired by a new corporate...

June 9, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The deadline for comments on the Internal Revenue Service's proposal for a 403(b) plan document prototype program was June 1, and trade groups...

June 9, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Boston Globe's survival is in question as the newspaper's largest union rejected a package of wage and benefits cuts management said were...

June 9, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New research released from the Principal Financial Well Being Index indicates American workers see glimmers of hope that the economy is headed in...

June 9, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The number of employers offering nonqualified deferred compensation plans (NQDCPs) in 2008 was flat compared to a survey taken a year before.

June 9, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers faced with reduced communication budgets and resources are turning to social media to keep their workforce engaged, according to a survey.

June 9, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Minnesota District 861 school board may now wish it had heard employees' grievances over the reduction in vendors offered in their 403(b)...

June 9, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Investors showed continued confidence in U.S. stock separate accounts and collective trusts in the first quarter of 2009, Morningstar said.

June 9, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com)—Bipartisan legislation has been introduced to give workers a new incentive to annuitize, rather than spend, their retirement savings.

June 9, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - CPI Qualified Plan Consultants, Inc., a Great Bend, Kansas-based third party recordkeeping and administration company, has unveiled a program to invest employees' salary...

June 8, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Los Angeles law firm well known in the retirement services space for its expertise in Employee Retirement Income Security Act fiduciary issues...

June 9 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Grail Advisors has announced the registration of four new actively-managed exchange-traded funds, or ETFs.

June 9, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Diversified Investment Advisors, Inc. has introduced a new version of its OnTrack report.

June 9, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Defined contribution balances continued to slip in the first quarter, but at a slower pace.

June 9, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - According to the latest Capital Market Update from Towers Perrin, there was a slight 0.5 percentage point increase in the Towers Perrin benchmark...

June 9, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Securities and Exchange Commission has asked more than two dozen pension fund managers and financial firms for information concerning pension fund business...