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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 5, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has proposed two new rules under the Investment Company Act to allow exchange-traded funds (ETFs) to operate...

March 5, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that Fidelity Investments agreed to pay an $8 million penalty in connection with charges 13 current...

March 5, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - A 65-year-old couple retiring in 2008 will need approximately $225,000 to cover medical costs in retirement, according to new Fidelity Investments data.

March 5, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - Principal Funds has tapped Nora M. Everett as president, effective March 1, 2008, according to a company news release.

March 5, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders has proposed a restructuring of the city's troubled pension system with changes to both the defined benefit and...

March 5, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - The number of private-sector workplace discrimination charges leaped by 9% during the last fiscal year over the prior period - the highest volume...

April 27, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Going against objections by management, the shareholders of Bank of America Corp. voted yesterday to change the election process for its board of...

March 4, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - Van Kampen Retirement Strategy Trust today filed a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for 10 new target retirement date...

March 4, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - There's a new top worry among small business owners in California - the economy.

March 4, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - Some 45% of multinational companies in a recent Mercer poll take an almost exclusively global compensation approach.

March 4, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - There was a 14.5% increase in the number of hedge funds and funds of hedge funds reporting to hedge fund databases in 2007...

April 27, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Top executives from three of the nation's biggest automakers will meet with President Bush next month to discuss how energy and pension issues...

March 4, 2008 ((b)lines) - The new 403(b) regulations concerning plan transfers and contract exchanges both expand permissible transactions for participants and place controls on conditions of the...

March 4, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - State Street Corporation has announced two executive appointments to its unit covering the U.S. public fund market.

March 4, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - The New Jersey state Senate on Monday approved and sent on to the General Assembly a measure giving workers in the Garden State...

March 3, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey on February 22 announced higher civil fines against employers who violate federal immigration laws.

March 3, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has ruled that federal benefits law pre-empts state law in a class action lawsuit challenging Aetna's handling of eating disorder...

March 3, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida has determined a long-term disability plan administrator was not wrong in requiring objective...

March 3, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new study has found that the workplace productivity of moderately to extremely obese workers is lower when compared to those with less...