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March 7, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Allegiant Asset Management Co. announced that Laurie Posner has joined the firm as Director for Institutional Sales for the West Coast region.

July 27, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has approved a $37.5 million settlement between Northern Trust Company and Enron retirement plan participants.

July 27, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new survey by the Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) and underwritten by Credit Suisse Asset Management finds US businesses increased or maintained...

March 7, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -A Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) investigation into insider trading allegations against the Retirement Systems of Alabama (RSA) has prompted a reminder to public...

March 7, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) trustees on Friday voted to oppose proposed state legislation that targets foreign government-controlled cash reserves called...

March 7, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A lawsuit filed in Utah state court by a former salesman for a motivational coaching business accuses his supervisor of waterboarding him during...

March 7, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new coalition of public sector workers has formed to support defined benefit plans and retiree health care programs.

March 7, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Standard & Poor's has renamed the sector indices acquired from Goldman Sachs in February 2007 to the S&P North American Sector Indices.

March 6, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Twenty-eight percent of the small-business owners in a recent survey have planned to have older workers transfer their professional knowledge to younger colleagues.

March 6, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The tale of Daniel Kuch, at least as told by police, lends a whole new dimension to those who rely on a fake...

March 6, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The District of Columbia City Council has put its stamp of approval on a bill that would require employers to furnish paid sick...

June 27, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Eleven former employees of a Honolulu optical technology company have charged in a federal lawsuit that the firm reversed course and refused to...

June 27, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With the exception of Social Security, 81% of Americans see themselves as responsible for bearing the weight of their financial security after retirement,...

March 6, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued new guidance regarding three areas of plan administration changed by the Pension Protection Act of 2006...

March 6, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -The U.S. House of Representatives has approved mental health care benefits parity legislation.

June 27, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Merrill Lynch has launced a swap index series in response to pension funds' trend toward liability-driven investing, according to IPE.com.

June 26, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Even if some companies have been skeptical about adopting Roth 401(k) plans, a new report by Hewitt Associates suggests that the retirement savings...

March 6, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan document provider ftwilliam.com has released two new 403(b) plan documents, updated with the 2007 final regulations.

March 6, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Things are looking up for state retirement plans, according to the latest annual study by Wilshire Consulting of the state of the plans'...

March 6, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Internal Revenue Service (IRS) officials have advised pension plan sponsors that they should continue using the guidance in Revenue Ruling 96-7 for mortality...