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November 14, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Outgoing North Carolina Treasurer Richard Moore said he will instruct that the shares of Wachovia held by the state's pension fund be voted...

November 14, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fidelity Investments on Friday told workers that there would be 1,700 fewer of them during the first quarter.

November 14, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Hartford is now facing litigation from its own employees, who have lost hundreds of millions of dollars of retirement savings invested in...

November 14, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Teacher Retirement System of Texas has promoted Lee Partridge from managing director of strategic research and risk management to deputy chief investment...

November 14, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A former communications company employee battling in support of his stock-drop lawsuit suffered his second major legal setback when a federal appellate court...

November 14, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor will publish a final rule on November 17 to update its regulations under the 15-year-old Family and Medical...

November 14, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - U.S. Representative Howard P. "Buck" McKeon (R-California), the senior Republican on the House Labor Committee, commended Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao for her...

November 14, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A California state appellate court on Thursday dismissed San Diego City Attorney Michael Aguirre's attempt to repeal certain pension benefits.

November 13, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Wednesday charged network security company Blue Coat Systems, Inc. and its former chief financial officer Robert...

November 13, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California has found that a mutual fund company charged by a multi-employer plan of...

November 13, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor has sued the board of directors of The Employee Ownership Holding Co. of Stockton, California, and Fife, Washington,...

November 13, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - MassMutual announced it has added seven investment options to its platform for Taft-Hartley plans.

November 13, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nuveen Investments has announced the creation of Nuveen Alternative Investments, a new unit designed to serve the needs of institutional investors seeking alternative...

November 13, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Kenneth Pouch has been promoted to national practice leader for MassMutual Retirement Service's Taft-Hartley business development team.

November 13, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - DailyAccess Corporation, a Mobile, Alabama, plan provider, has appointed Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) attorney James O. Wood to its newly created...

November 13, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - U.S. Senator Max Baucus (D-Montana) has provided an 89-page "Call to Action" to reform the American health care system.

November 13, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - According to the Employee Benefit Research Institute's 2008 Health Confidence Survey, providing high quality care and making health care more affordable are the...

November 13, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New research indicates that too many investment choices in a 401(k) plan may lead participants who are inexperienced investors to take on more...

November 13, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Standard & Poor's Indices Versus Active Funds Scorecard (SPIVA) indicates that active fund managers underperform benchmarks over long periods of time.

November 12, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Participants in the University of California Retirement Plan will begin making contributions next year to offset losses from the financial crisis, after an...