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January 26, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Charles Schwab & Co. has launched Real Life Retirement Services, to provide "practical help for people making the transition to retirement."

January 26, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Senate Finance Committee is scheduled to take up a proposed $455-billion federal bailout package Tuesday morning that backers say should help...

January 23, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Canadian organizations are looking at alternative solutions to manage human resources budgetary constraints, while still investing in those programs that drive employee engagement,...

January 23, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Recently stung by word their town public pension lost $42 million in the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme, local lawmakers in a Connecticut town...

January 23, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new study suggests the economic times we live through have a significant impact on how we invest our money.

January 23, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has sent a former chief financial officer's age discrimination suit back to a lower court for...

January 23, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has designated the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) and the pension insurance programs that it administers as one...

January 23, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Minnesota Court of Appeals has overturned a lower court's decision that a domestic relations order (DRO) was a qualified domestic relations order...

January 23, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - One of the nation's leading retirement plan adviser teams has broken its long-standing wirehouse ties, and embraced an independent affiliation.

January 23, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New York State Common Retirement Fund has selected Bank of America and Parish Capital as "partners" in its efforts to expand its emerging...

January 23, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - State of Iowa lawmakers are debating whether to privatize the state's Lottery program or possibly sell or lease it to the state public...

January 23, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - On Thursday the U.S. Senate approved the Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, increasing the time limit for workers to file pay discrimination lawsuits.

January 23, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - General Motors Corp. and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission reached a settlement Thursday over charges that the company improperly represented pension estimates...

January 23, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The median institutional plan in the Northern Trust Universe lost a quarter of its value during a "dismal" 2008, according to the latest...

January 23, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Vanguard Group has introduced a bond index fund for use by Vanguard funds, including Vanguard's Target Retirement and LifeStrategy funds, that invest...

January 23, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two new exchange-traded funds (ETFs) sponsored by Barclays Global Investors have been listed on the NASDAQ.

January 22, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Standard & Poor's Index Services has launched the S&P CDS U.S. Indices.

January 22, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Desjardins Group, a cooperative financial group in Canada, has created the SocieTerra socially responsible investment portfolios.

January 22, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Recent surveys suggest employers may not realize how big a problem they have with workers coming into the office sick.

January 22, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The fourth quarter of 2008 was a dark time for target-maturity funds as the average offering suffered a 17.3% setback, a new Ibbotson...