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May 19, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new whitepaper outlines a new solution to mitigate pension plan risk.

May 19, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that a Missouri employer did not adequately justify a significant pay differential between a...

May 19, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Colorado Public Employees' Retirement Association is encouraging Congress to support the Security and Exchange Commission's (SEC) efforts to establish high standards for...

May 19, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Congresswoman Rosa L. DeLauro (D-Connecticut) has introduced the Healthy Families Act, which would provide paid sick days to nearly all American workers.

May 19, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's private-sector pension insurer has taken responsibility for two pension plans covering about 4,300 workers and retirees of Lenox Group Inc., a...

May 19, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Faced with the continued effects of the recession, Washington Hospital in Pennsylvania announced it will freeze its defined benefit pension plan.

May 19, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A recent survey by the Marketing Executives Networking Group (MENG), a nearly 2000 member, not-for-profit organization of senior-level marketing professionals, found that networking...

May 19, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Concerned a brain drain could hurt its long-term ability to compete, Google Inc. is tackling the problem with an algorithm.

May 18, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An Indiana manufacturer has received a mixed ruling from a federal judge in a lawsuit alleging its misdeeds in the handling of its...

May 18, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Seems as though lately everyone wants to "fix" the 401(k), but a new whitepaper suggests a different take.

May 18, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) announced it will take responsibility for the underfunded pension plan covering some 5,500 employees and retirees of...

May 18, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled for the employer in a closely watched discrimination case over retroactive pension rights under the Pregnancy Discrimination...

May 18, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Putnam Investments has launched two new funds that collectively invest across the full spectrum of securities of leveraged companies, including stocks, bonds, bank...

May 18, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. is making funeral planning benefits available to workers at no additional cost through employers who add group...

May 18, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. division of Sun Life Financial has announced a new focus on providing a full range of employee benefits to the public...

May 18, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Covenant College officials have announced that the college will institute layoffs and a pay freeze as its endowment suffered a 25% loss in...

May 18, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A City of Detroit worker suing one of Detroit's public pensions won a temporary restraining order Friday that prohibits the fund from destroying...

May 18, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Buffalo, New York-based P&A Retirement Plan Services has announced a program that "allows participants of defined contribution plans to buy and sell ETFs...

May 18, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Participants who are undergoing specific financial hardships would get some relief on 401(k) penalties under new legislation.

May 18, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service has proposed rules that would permit employers affected by substantial business hardship to decide mid-year to reduce or suspend...