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Panel members at PLANSPONSOR's 2008 Future of Asset Allocated Funds Conference in Newport Beach, California, gave attendees perspective of the various glide paths of lifecycle funds, the strategies...

There are some very different assumptions underlying the construction of the new generation of asset allocation funds and they can make a big difference in how the funds...

June 28, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Last year 60% of companies made special pension contributions, above normal or statutory contributions, to help plug their scheme deficits, according to a...

Notably absent from specific mention in the Department of Labor's Qualified Default Investment Alternatives regulations were asset allocated solutions based exclusively on risk, rather than age or date.

April 4, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) has waded into the court case involving the controversial San Francisco Health Care Security Ordinance (HCSO) arguing...

April 4, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Flexible Spending Account (FSA) plan sponsor had a fiduciary duty to plan participants to clearly state in plan documents that its definition...

April 28, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Lawmakers have delayed a vote on a bill to add a real estate fund to the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP), an addition that...

April 4, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The funded status of the typical U.S. pension plan saw a 0.2-percentage-point improvement in March, according to BNY Mellon Asset Management.

April 4, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Citigroup Inc. has agreed to pay $33 million to about 2,500 current and former female brokers for its Smith Barney unit to settle...

April 28, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With a union leading the charge, dissatisfied Pfizer Inc. shareholders came up short Thursday in trying to institute corporate governance reforms including holding...

April 4, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Invesco PowerShares Capital Management LLC has announced the listing of two new exchange-traded funds.

April 28, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The state of Massachusetts is considering ousting the board that governs one of its largest pension funds, in light of an investigation by...

April 4, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Citing months of poor performance, Goldman Sachs announced it has stopped offering an investment account that AQR Capital Management created for the bank's...

April 4, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The SPARK Institute has released for public review and comment the first of two proposals for best practices in information sharing among 403(b)...

April 4, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - State Street Corporation announced that Scott Powers has been named to be president and chief executive officer of State Street Global Advisors (SSgA),...

April 4, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - 401(k) participants in a stock-drop case against medical products manufacturer Baxter International Inc. have won an important legal skirmish as a federal appellate...

April 4, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - ING Investment Management (ING-IM) has announced the appointment of William Bonde as Co-Head of its Hedge Fund of Funds business.

April 4, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has declared that the former stepdaughter of a deceased 401(k) participant should get the benefits from his plan account.

March 28, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The San Diego City Council has agreed to place two of Mayor Jerry Sander's campaign proposals on the November 7 ballot.

March 28, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Boston-based private equity firm TA Associates will buy securities lending company eSecLending, currently majority-owned by London-based Old Mutual Plc, the companies announced.