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December 2, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A deceased life insurance plan participant's designation of her daughter as a beneficiary was valid and the daughter is entitled to the policy's...

December 2, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new global study has found that employees laid off in the United States earn the least amount of severance pay worldwide-no matter...

December 2, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The latest bulletin from the Internal Revenue Service, IR-2008-134, reminds low- and moderate-income workers they still have time to take steps to get...

December 2, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Putnam Investments President and CEO Robert L. Reynolds is continuing to bring in a series of former Fidelity Investments executives as part of...

December 2, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - If public pensions do not adjust their investment and funding strategies, future plan participants and taxpayers will bear an enormous burden for funding...

December 2, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Illinois Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias is pushing a plan to pool billions in state pension investments as a way to cut costs and curtail...

December 2, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The funding deficit for the U.K.'s 200 largest privately sponsored pension plans improved by £38 billion in November, the largest single month rise...

December 2, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - When asked about their personal financial situation, almost half (46%) of respondents to a new survey said they are very confident.

December 2, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Losses for pension plans sponsored by the nation's largest U.S. companies have turned a surplus of $60 billion at the end of 2007,...

December 2, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Prudential Fixed Income Management has made its nine fixed income collective trust funds available to defined contribution plans.

December 2, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Transamerica Retirement Services announced a series of enhancements to "Transamerica Partner iSeries," a Web-based, virtually paperless, plan administration tool for Third Party Administrators...

December 2, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Norwalk, Connecticut-based institutional investment adviser has launched a tool providing plan sponsors with a new way to judge the level of fees...

December 2, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Northern Trust announced new performance and analysis capabilities for clients investing in private equity, hedge funds, and other alternative assets.

December 2, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While a majority of board of directors or board-level committees retain responsibility for appointing fiduciaries for qualified plans, an increasing number are choosing...

December 1, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has let stand an arbitrator's decision under the Halliburton Dispute Resolution Plan, finding...

December 1, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan has determined an employee who claimed a coworker's perfume aggravated a lifelong medical...

Media reports show a trend of plan sponsors freezing their defined benefit plans and moving to or enhancing their defined contribution offerings, but a panel of speakers at...

December 1, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Recession or not, true love will cost you dearly this year.

December 1, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - MassMutual Retirement Services Division has added two new consultants to support its nonprofit business, which the firm says has tripled compared with a...

December 1, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The workplace makes for some interesting stories. As we exit 2008, let's look back at some of the oddest workplace stories during the...