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October 24, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued interim guidance generally extending to 2007 the 409A tax reporting guidance that was applicable to 2005...

October 24, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. House Ways and Means Committee will hold an October 30 hearing to discuss the fees charged to participants enrolled in defined...

October 24, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Thomas Kennelly has been appointed the U.S. head of Liability-Driven Investing (LDI) for State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), the company announced.

October 23, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The transition management industry has drafted a list of best practices, called T-Charter, to help guide transition management firms.

October 22, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fidelity Investments Canada launched a Retirement Index that measures how financially prepared working Canadian households are for retirement.

October 23, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Morgan Stanley has agreed to a $16 million settlement over allegations that it denied business opportunities to African-American and Latino financial advisers, Reuters...

October 23, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Tribune Co. has announced to its 20,000 employees that a new health care plan proposal, if passed, could cost smokers $100 a...

October 23, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Just in time for trick-or-treat, scammers are now pretending to be the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).

October 23, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - Saying it was   "probably the most important regulation issued resulting from   the Pension Protection Act of 2006," Bradford Campbell,   Assistant...

October 23, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - MetLife on Tuesday announced a new option that increases the annual maximum benefit for dental plan participants over a two- or three-year period...

October 23, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Funded ratios at Canadian pensions have reached their highest levels in more than five years, according to a Watson Wyatt analysis.

October 23, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Most U.S. institutional investment plan sponsors reported modest returns for the third quarter of 2007, according to data in the Northern Trust Universe.

October 22, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New research from Ernst & Young LLP shows many U.S. employers are not prepared for the economic and productivity effects the aging workforce...

October 22, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two out of three companies say they are having a hard time attracting and retaining top talent, with the U.S. reporting the greatest...

October 22, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A report from The Bank of New York Mellon and independent research firm Oxford Metrica suggests hedge funds be classified according to the...

October 22, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - 401(k) investors may have been in an unsettled mood during September's market turbulence but the month as a whole was still comparatively quiet...

October 22, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Russell Investment Group has launched a new asset allocation process that enables defined benefit plan sponsors to comprehensively evaluate the state of their...

October 22, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The American Society of Pension Professionals & Actuaries (ASPPA) has issued standards of practice for recordkeepers so that plan sponsors, investment advisers and...

October 22, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Principal Financial Group has announced it will pay for certain fees imposed on consumer driven health care plans.

October 22, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - It could only mean catastrophe when job applicants dress up as Frankenstein, Satan, a ghost with a tie or a vampire for an...