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November 25, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The board of trustees of Vanguard Morgan Growth Fund has named two new firms to the fund's investment advisory team.

November 25, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Benefit Advisors Network, a national network of independent benefit advisory and consulting companies, has named Raleigh, North Carolina's Progressive Benefit Solutions (PBS) as...

November 25, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New Jersey's pension fund is under fire over a series of controversial hedge-fund investments.

November 25, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - General Motors' 401(k) plan participants still can't buy any more company stock.

November 25, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Even before the current market turmoil, plan sponsors were increasingly inclined to bring in some expert help.

November 25, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Texas has ruled that lawyers for a participant challenging his employer's cash balance plan deserve fees, but cut the...

November 25, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S.   Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security   Administration (EBSA) has released Field Assistance Bulletin   (FAB) 2008-04, which provides guidance...

November 25, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA), the Internal Revenue Service, and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. on Tuesday released...

November 25, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on Tuesday released the 2008 Cumulative List of Changes in Plan Qualification Requirements to be used primarily by...

November 25, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - American International Group, Inc. (AIG), the beneficiary of a government bailout package, imposed its own executive compensation restrictions that include a $1 salary...

November 25, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new survey, not surprisingly, has found that corporate employers are most likely to offer a defined contribution (DC) plan while Taft-Hartley or...

November 25, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Bad bosses can be bad for your health.

November 25, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fidelity Investments has named Charles G. Goldman, former executive vice president and head of Schwab Institutional, as president of Institutional Platforms for Fidelity...

November 25, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Putnam Investments announced that Daniel C. Farrell has joined the company as its Head of Equity Trading.

November 24, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. division of Sun Life Financial Inc.says that its Employee Benefits Group has appointed Christopher J. Quinn to Vice President and Chief...

November 24, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Having solved all the world's problems, researchers have now determined the length - and content - of the "perfect" phone call.

If I were to sum up the results of our 13th annual Defined Contribution Survey in a sentence, it would be "not as much as you might think."

November 24, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Teachers in Newport News, Virginia, similar to those in an upstate New York school district, are pushing back against their administration's efforts to...

November 24, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Hewitt Associates analysis shows that even while 401(k) participants are feeling the effects of a down market, they are continuing to invest...

November 24, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and Asia have undertaken far more extensive and fundamental pension reforms than those tried in Western industrialized countries.