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April 21, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - State of Iowa officials would pour $4.5 million extra annually into three of Iowa's public pension programs if a bill in the state...

April 21, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new study by Greenwich Associates shows that defined contribution plans have grown to account for 46% of assets among U.S companies with...

April 21, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employer retirement plans and IRAs were among the top savings opportunities mentioned in a recent poll about Americans' savings habits during the economic...

April 21, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Vanguard Group has unveiled the Vanguard Managed Payout Funds.

April 21, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Missouri Wal-Mart employee and participant in its 401(k) plan has filed an excessive fee lawsuit against the giant retailer.

April 21, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The New Hampshire state Senate has approved a measure permitting some teachers to put off retirement for a year and still qualify for...

April 21, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - San Diego City Attorney Michael Aguirre has appealed the dismissal of a pension lawsuit in which he argued for the elimination of hundreds...

April 21, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New Jersey state senator Bill Baroni has asked Attorney General Anne Milgram to stop those who serve on obscure state consumer-affairs boards that...

April 21, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - FundQuest, a managed account provider, has launched nine mutual funds as part of its new ActivePassive Funds family.

April 18, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - One week before the meeting of its policy-setting General Conference, the United Methodist Church has turned aside a proposal for it to divest...

April 18, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A U.S. House committee has given its stamp of approval to a measure giving federal workers four weeks of paid parental leave and...

April 18, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A proposal by Boeing's top labor negotiator, Doug Kight, to enroll new hires into a 401(k) plan instead of the company's pension plan...

April 18, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A newly released research study casts doubt on the traditional notion that calculations of a person's retirement nest egg should take into account...

April 18, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a district court's determination that miscalculations of pension benefits by a human resources employee...

April 18, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -Citigroup has worked out a £400 million ($788 million) deal with UK pension insurer Paternoster to hand over the pension plan of U.K. engineering...

April 18, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The law firm of Stember Feinstein Doyle & Payne, LLC is investigating whether Marshall & Ilsley (M&I) violated its fiduciary duties to its...

April 17, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The version of a 401(k) fee disclosure bill passed by a U.S. House committee Wednesday includes a controversial provision mandating that plan sponsors...

April 17, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Morningstar 1000 Hedge Fund Index lost 1.51% in the first quarter of 2008.

April 22, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Every plan sponsor about to embark on an educational campaign for their employees, should decide what they want to get out of it,...

April 17, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new Spectrem Group survey of large 401(k) plan sponsors found that the sponsors are looking for advisers with expertise in a particular...