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January 2, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nearly 54% of HR professionals have had to discipline employees for wasting time on the Internet, according to recent research from content security...

January 2, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Increasing numbers of accounting and finance workers ended 2007 with glum looks on their faces as their confidence continued dropping, according to new...

January 2, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Association of Consulting Actuaries (ACA) is calling for the U.K. government to allow employers a new option for their pension schemes to...

January 2, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A former New York City apartment house doorman, injured in a 1998 slip and fall on a pile of pigeon droppings on the...

December 24, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - On December 12, PLANSPONSOR's "Plugged In" Web cast took a look at recent developments in cash balance plans.

January 2, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A group of former telephone company employees has taken its battle against retiree benefit cutbacks into federal court, alleging landline company Embarq Corp....

A belief that public sector workers are firmly ensconced atop the three-legged stool of retirement financing and their benefits are being increasingly funded by private sector taxpayers largely...

As Nevin Adams, Editor-in-Chief of PLANSPONSOR magazine, put it, with any new legislation, there's the "figuring out what's there," and there's the "aftermath (figuring out what we don't...

As Nevin Adams, Editor-in-Chief of PLANSPONSOR magazine, put it, with any new legislation, there's the "figuring out what's there," and there's the "aftermath (figuring out what we don't...

Recent regulations have sparked the need for defined benefit plan sponsors to implement changes to plan administration and/or investment strategies and consider hiring or changing service providers.

Recent regulations have sparked the need for defined benefit plan sponsors to implement changes to plan administration and/or investment strategies and consider hiring or changing service providers.

December 5, 2007 (Washington, D.C.) - With a flawed defined benefit plan funding landscape behind us and following the setting of new funding rules with the passage of...

As defined benefit plan sponsors look for ways to increase funding and manage risk, 120/20 and 130/30 funds are increasingly being touted as useful investment strategies.

Funding rule changes enacted with the passage of the Pension Protection Act (PPA) in 2006 and accounting rule changes implemented with Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) statement 158...

January 25, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With a wary eye cast at what many saw as skimpy returns, many investors fled from hedge funds in 2005 and took hundreds...

January 25, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Daniel Calugar, former head trader and owner of Securities Brokerage, Inc. was arrested and convicted for a felony violation of New York's Martin...

A funding crisis accelerated the demise of many defined benefit plans in recent years, and some have predicted new funding rules brought on by the Pension Protection Act...

Is cash balance a workable design alternative to traditional pension plans?

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) unveiled new pension accounting rules in October 2006 with further rules to come in Phase II of the project at a later...

Increasing complexity of defined benefit plan administration brought on by new regulations is leading sponsors to take a new look at outsourcing solutions.