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March 21, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - JPMorgan Funds has announced that CPI Qualified Plan Consultants, Inc., a third party recordkeeping and administration company headquartered in Great Bend, Kansas, has...

March 21, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Colorado officials with The Communications Workers of America say a Qwest supervisor instructed workers to use portable urinal bags while in the field...

March 21, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Winners of the American Psychological Association's 2008 Psychologically Healthy Workplace Award (PHWA) provide evidence that workplaces that invest in the well-being of employees...

March 20, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - TIAA-CREF has named Bill Riegel the company's Head of Global Equity Investments, succeeding Susan Ulick, who will retire on April 1, 2008 as...

March 20, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - If you think the U.S. has the best health care system in the world, you are more likely a Republican.

March 20, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Assets in employment-based defined contribution plans (typically 401(k) plans), individual retirement accounts (IRAs), and Keogh plans are concentrated in families with high family...

March 20, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The vast majority of U.S. companies paid CEOs who departed in 2007 the same compensation disclosed in their 2007 proxy disclosures and provided...

March 20, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Shareholders of two Fidelity Investments funds rejected a proposal by activists trying to block mutual-fund investments that may be linked to places like...

March 20, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - DWS Scudder announced the launch of an proprietary analytical tool to assist plan sponsors and financial advisers in evaluating their defined contribution plan's...

March 20, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new report shows local governments in New Jersey are slated to pay more than $1.2 billion toward the retirement plans of their...

March 20, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) announced it will publish a final rule to amend PBGC's regulations on Premium Rates and Payment of...

March 20, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has rejected pleas to spare former Brocade Human Resources chief Stephanie Jensen from serving prison time in connection with a...

March 20, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has ruled that an employer can't cut retired union members' health benefits because a union contract links the benefits...

March 19, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The equities markets may be on a long-term fritz, but that hasn't stopped fund investors from taking stock positions in their portfolios, according...

March 19, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Supreme Court has turned away an appeal from the family of a former Wal-Mart employee injured in a car crash in...

March 19, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The SPARK Institute has filed a 13-page comment letter with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) about the new 403(b) retirement savings plan regulations,...

March 19, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The upcoming wave of Baby Boomer retirements and its effects on employers' future staffing needs may be a difficult issue, but a new...

March 19, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Some 20% of those responding to a new survey said they will spend less than an hour a week following the goings-on at...

March 19, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Minneapolis has granted class-action status to a lawsuit against UnitedHealth Group Inc. over stock options backdating.

March 19, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New York City comptroller William Thompson said he will investigate whether the failure of Bear Stearns & Co was due to miscalculation or...