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February 20, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Northern Trust has launched automated endowment accounting that allows not-for-profit clients to allocate investment performance, track donations, and manage distributions across multiple accounts...

February 20, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case in which the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that a qualified...

February 20, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A nationwide survey of Canadian defined benefit pension plans released by Buck Consultants found that 43% of plan sponsors identified cost containment as...

February 20, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Connecticut has joined with most of his colleagues around the country in ruling on a seven-year-old lawsuit that CIGNA...

February 19, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mercer's Summary Performance of US Institutional Portfolios survey shows institutional plans posted negative fourth-quarter returns, but annual 2007 returns remained positive.

February 19, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new brief issued by the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College (CRR) argues that health care costs increase the percentage of...

February 19, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The UK's Pensions Regulator has told pension scheme trustees they should use more realistic assumptions about how long their members are likely to...

February 19, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Standard & Poor's announced the launch of two new investable Shariah indexes for the Indian equities market - the S&P CNX 500 Shariah...

February 19, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A recent blackout, the second in less than a year, for Research-in-Motion's Blackberry service, grabbed headlines recently.

February 19, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A California executive compensation research firm says the number of companies with publicly disclosed stock ownership policies for executives and directors increased sizably...

February 19, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A group of six current and former workers at computer-servicing giant EDS is suing the firm for failing to pay overtime.

February 19, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new study released by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) reports that most respondents to an experimental module in the 2004...

February 19, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) announced that the SPDR S&P International Dividend ETF began trading on the American Stock Exchange on Tuesday.

February 19, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's private-sector pension insurer is releasing for public comment a proposed rule implementing new financial and actuarial information reporting requirements called for...

February 19, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) launched a Web site on Friday that enables investors to probe the financial data of a...

February 18, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While many pension plans in the corporate sector are taking steps to decrease their equity allocations, the nation's private pension insurer is moving...

February 15, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - CBH Pensions, Inc., provider of retirement plan consulting and administrative services, announced it has joined Alliance Benefit Group, a national network of independently...

February 15, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Segal Public Sector ROW (Rewards of Work) Study found that career opportunity and work content were the most important job aspects for...

February 15, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An 11-year study of executive compensation released by ERI Economic Research Institute and Career Journal, the Wall Street Journal Online's free career channel...

February 15, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a February 13 meeting the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) presented proposals for amending Statement No. 132 Employers' Disclosures about Pensions and...