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May 9, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A U.S. House subcommittee has scheduled a hearing for next week on Health Savings Accounts (HSA) and the trend toward Consumer Driven Health...

May 9, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A state probe into the practice of lawyers improperly receiving state public pension benefits could potentially snare several hundred attorneys.

May 9, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Razzoo's, a Dallas/Fort Worth-based Cajun food restaurant chain, has agreed to pay $1 million and furnish significant remedial relief to settle charges of...

May 9, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Merrill Lynch Retirement Group reports that among the 1,700 plans on its proprietary recordkeeping system, almost 200 (12%) had added a Roth...

May 9, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Salary.com's annual Mom Salary Survey found that for 2008, the time mothers spend performing the 10 most popular "Mom job functions" would equate...

May 8, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new tip for job interviewers: Look for brawny handshakers.

May 8, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A top Department of Labor (DoL) benefits regulator on Thursday revealed that the agency is studying ways to help 403(b) plan sponsors better...

May 8, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A bill allowing the state of Connecticut to sponsor a 401(k) plan for small businesses apparently was a casualty of the last-minute scramble...

May 8, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Texas has dismissed an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) lawsuit alleging ExxonMobil violated the Age Discrimination in Employment Act...

May 8, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Morgan Stanley announced it will issue two exchange-traded notes (ETNs) which seek to provide leveraged directional exposure to the euro/U.S. dollar exchange rate.

May 8, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal benefit plans regulators on Thursday assured plan sponsors that paying strict attention to plan reporting rules was actually to their advantage.

May 8, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance Company announced that Charles P. Nelson, formerly senior vice president, Great-West Retirement Services, has been appointed president, Great-West...

May 8, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Americans held $17.6 trillion in retirement assets at the end of 2007, up $1.1 trillion from year-end 2006, according to a report from...

May 8, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new study by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, suggests people who...

May 8, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - UBS Financial Services Inc. reached an agreement with Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley to return $37 million to 17 cities and towns, as...

May 8, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Prudential Financial poll found retirement security is a top goal for most Hispanic Americans and many are on track to achieve it.

May 8, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a policy brief countering negative comments made by Democrats in response to Government Accountability Office (GAO) findings on health savings accounts (HSAs),...

May 7, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The compensation earned by 65% of the members of request for proposal (RFP) teams is not tied to the success they generate, a...

May 7, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - One in three employees has been to work with a hangover while more than one in 10 has been drunk at their desk,...

May 7, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Callan Associates' 2007 Style, Trend, Analysis and Research (STAR) report shows traditional asset classes lost $265 billion of institutional assets in 2007.