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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...

December 1, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Three-fourths of financial advisers polled in a new JPMorgan Funds-sponsored survey said that when evaluating target-date fund options, plan sponsors lack clear and...

December 1, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - EquiLend has announced that their securities finance technology platform offers Hold functionality for securities.

November 28, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Asked to rank the criteria used in selecting their DC plan provider, plan sponsors have reliably opted to put "others" first.

November 26, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - According to The Harris Poll, rising prices are a major "hassle" in Americans' daily lives - but some are feeling that stress more...

November 26, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Retirement benefits remain employers' single largest sector of benefits spending, but health benefit costs are catching up, according to a new Employee Benefit...

November 26, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nearly one-third (29%) of workers surveyed by CareerBuilder.com say they plan to holiday shop online while at work this year.

November 26, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) has accused a Bismarck, North Dakota, manufacturer of wastewater treatment systems and equipment and its owners of...

November 26, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Republican U.S. Senator has added her voice to the chorus of those calling for changes in the rules governing required minimum distributions...

November 26, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Congressman Earl Pomeroy (D-North Dakota) again questioned the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation's stance on easing the funding requirements for pension plans in a...

November 26, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins LLP announced that a class action has been commenced in the United States District Court for the...

November 26, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has released a memo warning businesses that funding your business with your retirement plan may not be a...

November 26, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Perhaps not surprisingly, there has been significant movement toward adopting target-date funds as a default investment for automatic enroll­ment.

November 26, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - If your building is "green", AIG has a new insurance product line for you.

November 26, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The combined assets of the nation's mutual funds decreased by $1.087 trillion, or 10.2%, to $9.6 trillion in October, according to the Investment...

November 25, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - ProFunds Group has announced the launch of a dozen new exchange-traded funds (ETFs).

November 25, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - MSCI Barra is expanding the MSCI Global Islamic Indexes family by extending Emerging Markets coverage to include the Small Cap segment, and by...