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February 25, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mercer has recently added two personalized online retirement planning tools to its base service offering for defined contribution administration clients.

February 25, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Perspective Partners, a firm specializing in measuring 401(k) plan effectiveness, has launched a savings stimulus campaign that provides free assistance to businesses that...

February 25, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new update to an ongoing series of surveys conducted by Watson Wyatt shows that most companies have already made most of the...

February 25, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - California State Controller John Chiang unveiled a new actuarial report that shows California faces a $48.2 billion bill to pay for retired state...

February 25, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A recent CareerBuilder.com survey found that 20% of workers said they arrive late to work at least once a week.

February 24, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Insurance provider CIGNA announced it would begin taking service calls for its medical, dental and pharmacy health employee benefits plans on Saturdays and...

February 25, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two managing general partners of WG Trading Co. of Greenwich, Connecticut, have been charged with running an estimated $550 million investment fraud.

February 25, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fewer than one in three Americans expect they will ever be able to fully retire, according to a new study commissioned by Scottrade.

February 25, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Robert J. Callanan, Jr. has been named a Managing Director at UBS.

February 25, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging held a hearing on the economic downturn's effect on retirement security, particularly for those who are...

February 24, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Justices at Missouri's Supreme Court have opened the state's worker's compensation system to a group of workers formerly excluded by a definition of...

February 25, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - U.S. Senators Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina), Chairman of the Senate Steering Committee, and Mike Enzi (R-Wyoming), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education,...

February 24, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Documents regarding the COBRA subsidy included in the newly passed stimulus bill are now on the Department of Labor Employee Benefits Security Administration's...

February 24, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Transamerica Retirement Services has launched a program to help retirement plan participants weather the financial storm, create a successful investment plan, and regain...

February 24, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois has refused to block a disability lawsuit brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity...

February 24, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Transamerica Retirement Services has launched a program to help retirement plan participants weather the financial storm, create a successful investment plan, and regain...

February 24, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service has released new withholding tables that incorporate the new "Making Work Pay" credit - a provision of the American...

February 24, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Analysis of data from the U.S. Department of Labor shows that employer contributions to retirement benefits for public school teachers in 2008 were...

February 24, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new survey by the Midwest Business Group on Health (MBGH) finds employer support for non-payment of "never events" -preventable hospital errors and...

February 24, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Forward Management, LLC, investment advisor to the Forward Funds, will add the Kensington Funds from the Kensington Investment Group, Inc. to the Forward...