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June 27, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Governor Steve Beshear signed legislation Friday afternoon aimed at shoring up Kentucky's financially troubled pension system for public employees.

June 27, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Minnesota judge has blocked the city of Duluth from making any changes to the health coverage of two of its retirees and...

June 27, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fred Alger Management, Inc. has announced several changes to its mutual fund lineups, including the consolidation of all of the open-end mutual funds...

June 27, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Texas state judge has told lawyers in a legal battle between the Lone Star state's public pension system and Putnam Investments over...

June 26, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - David K. Young Consulting, LLC has introduced the 403(b) Action Plan Workbook for school districts and other non-profits to aid in complying with...

June 26, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Northern Trust Bank, FSB announced it will acquire Lakepoint Investment Partners LLC of Cleveland, Ohio, an investment management firm serving individual investors, corporations,...

June 26, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The latest issue of Executive Compensation Trends from Equilar reveals that from 2006 to 2007, the median value of total stock holdings and...

June 26, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Another estimate from Fidelity Investments adds to the financial resources individuals need to save for retirement.

June 26, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Massachusetts authorities sued two subsidiaries of Swiss bank UBS AG with fraud on Thursday, accusing them of misleading investors about the safety of...

June 26, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With the retirement services industry's growing focus on providing workers with a retirement income stream, the defined contribution market will continue morphing into...

June 26, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Great-West Retirement Services has released a new online educational campaign for defined contribution plan participants in plans it manages.

June 26, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - TIAA-CREF, provider of retirement services in the academic, medical and cultural fields, has introduced a Web-based application that will allow 403(b) retirement plan...

June 26, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Allstate has introduced a Web-based customer engagement and reporting tool that goes beyond the numbers which are often the focus of retirement planning...

June 26, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Vanguard Group has launched a fund that seeks to track the investment performance of the FTSE All-World Index, a benchmark of approximately...

June 26, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new report by a Boston-based staffing company indicates certain IT workers remain in high demand and that there is a limited talent...

June 26, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A group of Nortel Networks employees not grandfathered into the company's defined benefit plan when it was frozen in June 2006 have filed...

June 26, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new survey reveals that as the use of health and wellness programs continue to grow, so too does the use of incentives...

June 26, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Texas Governor Rick Perry has ousted the chairman of the Texas Pension Review Board and replaced him with an Amarillo financial adviser.

June 26, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The law firm of Stember Feinstein Doyle & Payne, LLC announced it is investigating conduct causing losses to the Fifth Third Bancorp Master...

June 26, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A recent study by the Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp) finds that most companies are not looking for ways to keep the accumulated...