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January 18, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - CPI Qualified Plan Consultants, Inc., a third party recordkeeping and administration company headquartered in Great Bend, Kansas, has announced the creation of a...

January 18, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Standard & Poor's has launched a family of indices designed to model common arbitrage strategies in the financial markets.

January 18, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - After declaring that none of the six major insurance providers accused in a commission conspiracy were fiduciaries under the Employee Retirement Income Security...

January 18, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - Local prosecutors in Milwaukee say they plan to consult with the Wisconsin Attorney General's Office in deciding how to proceed with a probe...

January 18, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 2008 job outlook for real estate professionals in the commercial sector remains positive, a contrast to the outlook for the majority of...

January 18, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The total number of pension plans fell for the fifth consecutive year by 0.6% in 2005 to 679,000 plans, according to the Private...

January 18, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The House Ways and Means Committee considered legislation Wednesday that could reform 30-year-old Social Security laws some say are unfair to public workers.

January 17, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that a former employee's claims under Texas state law of negligence by her employer...

January 17, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new survey of executives finds that the anticipated wave of baby boomer retirements is likely to have the greatest workplace impact over...

January 17, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Most financial services firms have a way to go before they are effectively promoting health savings account (HSA) products, a new study says.

January 17, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has announced a new version of Form 4461-A, "Application for Approval of Master or Prototype or Volume Submitter...

January 17, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nearly half of respondents to a new survey say they have worked for two or three different employers - in just the past...

January 17, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Canadian employers need safe harbor provisions similar to what their U.S. counterparts have so Canadian executives can get more active in beefing up...

January 17, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The latest legal battle in the lawsuit over the Principal Financial Group's 401(k) revenue sharing arrangements centers around whether a federal judge in...

January 17, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Because of a difference in their length of time in the workforce, women who were older than 50 in 2006 were much less...

January 17, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Hedge funds in Morningstar's database, excluding funds-of-funds, returned an average of 1.98% during the fourth quarter of 2007, outperforming the S&P 500 Index...

January 17, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The average annual total return earned by the 767 U.S. institutions participating in the Commonfund Benchmarks Study of Educational Endowments was 16.9% (net...

January 17, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A New York state judge has rebuffed efforts by a 500-pound, retired New York City police officer to boost his disability benefits, ruling...

January 16, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - FundQuest, a global provider of managed account investment solutions for financial institutions and advisers, has hired Leslie Prescott as Director of Retirement Management...

January 16, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A study conducted by Switzerland's Federal Gender Equality Office and the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs found that 51.3% of workers in Switzerland...