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October 24, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a letter signed by 33 403(b) practitioners and advisers, two attorneys requested an extension of the effective date for complying with the...

October 24, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) has sued Zenith Capital LLC of Santa Rosa, California, and its executives for investing the assets of...

October 24, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Great-West Retirement Services has appointed Daniel Schatz as regional director of national accounts.

October 24, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The head of the nation's private-sector pension insurer appeared before a U.S. House committee in Washington on Friday to respond to continuing controversy...

October 24, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a statement presented in response to a recent Congressional Committee, the Investment Company Institute (ICI) made a case for riding out the...

October 23, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - WiredBenefits of San Francisco has unveiled its pre-paid pharmacy benefit card platform to support branded, open-loop payment cards on the MasterCard system.

October 23, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Most U.S. institutional investment plan sponsors reported a fourth consecutive quarter of negative results for the period ending September 30, 2008, according to...

October 23, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In response to the weakening economy and increasing cost pressures, a new pulse survey from Hewitt Associates found that many employers will be...

October 23, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The job market may be tight, but accounting and finance professionals who can help firms work through the current credit crunch and pitch...

October 23, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - GM announced layoffs and benefits cuts for salaried workers are coming.

October 23, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Salary increases planned for 2009 have not yet suffered a blow from recent financial market events, according to a recent Mercer survey.

October 23, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A third of workers in CareerBuilder.com's latest absenteeism survey have called in sick when they were well at least once this year.

October 23, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a company stock suit, the U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a settlement restoring $8,590,000 to participants of the Agway Inc. 401(k)...

October 22, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Claymore Securities, Inc. has tapped recordkeeper ExpertPlan to provide a private label 401(k) recordkeeping and administration solution.

October 22, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Morningstar Investment Services has introduced Morningstar Managed Portfolios Retirement Income Series, a managed account service made up of a lineup of three actively...

October 22, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's private-sector pension insurer has taken over the pension covering employees of a Portland, Oregon pulp and lumber company.

October 22, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Congressman George Miller (D-California) took the House Committee on Education and Labor on a field trip today.

October 22, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Ohio University (OU) has formalized a four-year-old practice of providing full medical and dental coverage to same-sex domestic partners of university employees and...

October 22, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Faced with allegations of federal disability benefit abuses among retirees at the Long Island Railroad (LIRR), the U.S. Railroad Retirement Board (URRB) has...

October 22, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New research from Pyramis Global Advisors, Fidelity Investments' institutional asset manager, reflects that while Canadian pension plans are surviving market volatility, there is...