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January 16, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Investors who add a variable annuity with a lifetime guaranteed minimum withdrawal benefit (GMWB) to a stock and bond retirement portfolio can enjoy...

January 16, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Hedge fund assets increased by $462 billion in 2007 to $1.997 trillion - an increase of 30% for the year - according to...

January 16, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The former chief executive of Brocade Communications Systems was slapped with a $15 million fine and a 21-month jail term for offenses relating...

January 16, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Online 401(k) will now offer automatic plan features to its small and single-proprietor business clients.

January 16, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - London-based global law firm Clifford Chance has voted to update its early retirement package for partners to bring the system in line with...

January 16, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Dow Jones Indexes and Wilshire Associates have announced that Bahrain, Kuwait and Sri Lanka will be added to the Dow Jones Wilshire Global...

January 16, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A $2 billion pension bond sale by the state of Connecticut, intended to help close the $6.9 billion funding shortfall in the state's...

January 16, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - 401(k) participants had equities on their minds in December, according to the latest Hewitt 401(k) Index data.

January 16, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Randy Kemnitz has joined ING as manager of executive benefits with the company's Life Sales Support team.

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...

January 16, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In the past, North Carolina state officials have at times diverted pension fund contributions to cover financial crises in other areas, but a...

January 16, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fifty percent of HR professionals surveyed by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) reported their organization had a formal (written) or informal...

January 15, 2008 (PLANPSONSOR.com) - Consumer-driven health plans (CDHPs), designed to rely on consumers' active involvement in their own care, are doomed to fail if health education initiatives...

January 15, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Portland, Maine-based provider of environmental, social, and governance research and consulting has released two new indexes aimed at faith-based investors.

January 15, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Causing a stir among Wall Street pundits, the state of New Jersey's $80-billion pension plan will take equity positions in both Citigroup and...

January 16, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - That German company that claimed to have fired non-smokers for stirring up trouble? Just kidding.

January 15, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The tax filing has barely started - and yet the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has already found it necessary to update its list...

January 15, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Investors looking for a new measure of socially responsive portfolios can now tap into one that purports to track the performance of companies...

January 15, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Metavante, a financial services payment systems provider, announced plans to acquire BenSoft Incorporated, of San Diego, California, and its product, RepayMe.