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April 14, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More than half of the nation's $2.2-trillion health care spending is wasteful, according to a new PricewaterhouseCoopers' Health Research Institute study.

April 14, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - National Insurance Services (NIS), working in cooperation with the Nebraska Council of School Administrators (NCSA) and the Nebraska Association of School Boards (NASB),...

April 14, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -MSCI Barra has launched the MSCI Global Minimum Volatility Indices, a new global benchmark offering for managed volatility investment strategies.

April 11, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is expected to sign a measure granting authority for the state to issue up to $5 billion in pension...

April 11, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A seven-year old race discrimination suit against Xerox Corporation has come to an end with the company agreeing to pay $12 million to...

April 11, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An opinion issued Tuesday by the Texas Attorney General's office said part of the plan to fix the shortfall in Fort Worth's retirement...

April 11, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Northern Trust has received an advisory opinion from the U.S. Department of Labor that it says clears the way for U.S. pension plan...

April 11, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Vanguard has added Baillie Gifford Overseas Ltd. as an advisor to two different equity funds.

April 11, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Former top Blue Cross executive Robert Naftaly has been named to chair an 11-member board that will manage billions of retiree benefit dollars...

April 11, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Standard & Poor's has announced the launch of three new benchmark and investable indices designed to provide investors with access to Africa's developing...

April 11, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The world's emerging and developed equity markets lost 10.56% and 8.95%, respectively, during the first three months of the year, according to Standard...

April 11, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As part of regulators' continuing efforts to flesh out the Pension Protection Act's (PPA) mandates, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on Friday issued...

April 11, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - AK Steel has appealed a ruling by a federal judge in Ohio that the company erroneously cut the pension benefits due to widows...

April 11, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The House Education and Labor Committee is scheduled to vote on legislation to ensure that American workers have clear and complete information about...

April 11, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) filed a lawsuit in federal district court in Chicago against Chicago-based AA Capital Partners Inc. and its...

April 11, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A U.S. district court judge extended his temporary restraining order on the merger of two pensions at The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia...

April 11, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In recent testimony before the Senate Special Committee on Aging, Paul Fronstin, director of the Health Research and Education Program at the nonpartisan...

April 10, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Denver city employee was suspended for four days after he asked two Hispanic co-workers how much it cost their "people to get...

April 10, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The largest union of The Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News is suing the newspapers' owner for merging two employee pension plans without its...

April 10, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A bill that would have barred two of the nation's largest public pension plans from investing in sovereign wealth funds has been withdrawn.