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September 4, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Boston-based Standish Mellon Asset Management has created a liability index and other tools to help pension plans monitor the impact of volatility in...

September 4, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New Jersey officials have decided to use $100 million in cash from the public employee pension fund to invest in companies doing business...

September 4, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. was still the front runner in labor productivity in 2006, but other regions like South Asia, East Asia and Central and...

September 4, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A clause under a new investment policy recently approved for the Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, pension program bars the county's investment managers from investing...

September 4, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a district court's decision to dismiss a case in which an employee's children sought...

September 4, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Alerus Financial will acquire the recordkeeping and advisory operations of the Stanton Group, a Minneapolis-based benefits, compensation and insurance services firm.

April 21, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new report by Prudential Real Estate Affiliates, "Building Retirement Security at Home," found that 85% of Americans view their homes as a...

September 4, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The town of Wellesley, Massachusetts may be turning over its pension management to the state, but it is not because it was an...

September 4, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has asked the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan to terminate the Waltec American...

September 4, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With an anti-market timing rule scheduled to go into effect October 16, 2007, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regulators have warned the investment...

April 21, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Dutch bank ABN AMRO has announced that it has reached an agreement with Highbury Financial Inc. to sell its US mutual fund business...

March 21, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pittsburgh Brewing has asked a federal judge to terminate its pension plan, currently underfunded by $11.8 million.

March 21, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Bankrupt Delta Air Lines Inc. has asked a federal judge to allow it to void around 93 million stock options held by 70,000...

March 21, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Massachusetts Secretary of State William Francis Galvin says too much state pension fund money is going into risky hedge funds.

February 21, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A letter from former Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Arthur Levitt and former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker urges regulators to reject a...

February 21, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) on Monday entered the melee over the UK Pension Commission's answer to a pension system strained by...

February 21, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Illinois-based chemical producer, Stepan Company, has joined the swelling list of companies swapping their defined benefits plans for 401(k) options, after Stepan's Board...

August 31, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The combined assets of the nation's mutual funds dropped by $83.11 billion to $11.29 trillion in July, leaving about the same total assets...

August 31, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The combined assets of the nation's mutual funds dropped by $83.11 billion to $11.29 trillion in July, leaving about the same total assets...

August 31, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - U.K. insurer Legal & General (L&G) has begun using individuals' postal codes to price its annuities, because it says where a person resides...