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February 12, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - JPMorgan Funds has named Jeffrey Chase as head of Southeast regional sales in the defined contribution investment only business, the company announced.

February 12, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers can breathe a sigh of relief with word that a provision that would have expanded their COBRA obligations was dropped from the...

February 12, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - ProFunds Group, which touts itself as the world's largest manager of short and leveraged funds, says that Joanne M. Hill has joined the...

February 12, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has hit a Kentucky firm with a $2,000 penalty and attorneys' fees for being late in notifying a former employee...

February 12, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The pension funded status of S&P 1500 companies at the end of January was unchanged from December, according to the latest estimates from...

February 12, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), the investment management arm of State Street Corporation, has been appointed as a portfolio strategist firm by Genworth...

February 12, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - One of the places where love is increasingly in the air these days is apparently the workplace.

February 12, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pyramis Global Advisors, a Fidelity Investments company, has announced the expansion of investment and relationship management, distribution and consultant relations outside the United...

February 12, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - General Motors has announced retiree medical and life insurance benefits changes in a continued effort to reduce expenses.

February 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Reliance Trust Company, a division of Reliance Financial Corporation, has introduced a new 401(k) plan aimed at plan sponsors with a minimum of...

February 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Workscape, Inc., a provider of Web-based outsourced benefits and talent management solutions, and Milliman, Inc., an actuarial and consulting firm, have forged a...

February 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a recent Randstad survey comparing presidential personalities with boss personalities, no single president's personality type emerged as the frontrunner.

February 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Responses to a recent survey indicate job candidates might want to check their own references first before listing them for a potential employer...

February 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) has announced that the SPDR Barclays Capital Intermediate Term Credit Bond ETF started trading on the NYSE Arca...

February 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The New York Daily News has suspended its 401(k) match.

February 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Baton Rouge Advocate newspaper has temporarily stopped contributing to its employees' retirement 401(k) plan.

February 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A pension fund has filed a federal court lawsuit against Goldman Sachs and other defendants with charges they filed false or misleading securities...

February 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio has determined that Huntington Bancshares Inc. did not breach its fiduciary duties under...

February 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR. com) - Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Senator Herb Kohl (D-Wisconsin), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, on Thursday introduced legislation...

February 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has ruled that executives only have a limited right to challenge workplace police searches outside their personal offices.