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July 28, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An Encino, California, consultant to cash balance plans has announced a series of podcasts available to the public.

July 29, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - C-Change, a national cancer coalition of leaders from the government, business, and non-profit sectors, is launching an initiative encouraging companies to assure their...

July 29, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Whirlpool Corporation has filed a lawsuit in federal district court seeking judgment that its modification of retiree medical benefits will not violate collective...

July 29, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Hewitt Associates has appointed Eric Fiedler and Yvan Legris as co-presidents of its consulting business, effective October 1.

July 29, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Average pay in the San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland, CA metropolitan area was 19% above the national average in 2007, the highest among metropolitan areas...

July 29, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Holzer Holzer & Fistel, LLC announced it is investigating possible violations of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) related to UBS AG's...

July 29, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - 401(k) participants continued to flee equity holdings in June 2008, according to Hewitt's 401(k) Index.

July 29, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in New York has rebuffed a Xerox Corp. employee's challenge of the computation of her pension benefits.

July 28, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The combined assets of the nation's exchange-traded funds (ETFs) were $578.07 billion in June, dropping 5.3%, according to the Investment Company Institute (ICI).

July 28, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - SEI has announced the launch of a new fund that addresses the increased desire of institutional investors, specifically nonprofit organizations, to invest in...

July 28, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Westport, Connecticut-based WealthNotes Capital Management is launching an exchange traded note (ETN) tracking the performance of the S&P 500 130/30 Total Return Strategy...

July 28, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Tradeweb, an over-the-counter multi-asset class online marketplace owned jointly by Thomson Reuters and 10 global dealers, announced it is planning to introduce an...

July 28, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Swiss bank UBS AG suspended the firm's head of fixed income in the U.S. and global head of municipal securities, David Shulman, according...

July 28, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In May, Lincoln National Corp. unveiled a suite of services designed to help 403(b) sponsors comply with Internal Revenue Service (IRS) regulations.

July 28, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - If a Nevada worker suffers a workplace injury that is sufficiently connected to that person's later suicide, the worker's family can file a...

July 28, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Al Otto, who recently departed White Horse Advisors, has launched a new firm.

July 28, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - StarCite Inc., provider of Web-based solutions that help companies strategically manage corporate meetings and events, has introduced two new products designed to extend...

July 28, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Credit Suisse and Instinet Europe, the broker that is majority-owned by Nomura of Japan, have agreed to allow mutual access to each other's...

One of the chief concerns for plan sponsors and providers, besides getting their participants to a successful retirement, is making sure they are not sued for their attempts.

Stable value funds are the "Linus Blanket" of the retirement services world, or at least that's how participants thought of them in the eighties, says Mark Woolhiser, Principal...