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August 10, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - The nation's private-sector pension insurer has taken over the pension plan covering more than 1,400 workers and retirees at a Clarkesville, Georgia, button...

August 10, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - Charging that Delta Air Lines is misreading federal tax law, a group of retired pilots has asked a federal bankruptcy judge to force...

August 10, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Though traditional reporting methods such as statutory and U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) reporting still dominate both external and internal financial reporting...

August 10, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Despite findings that companies are sufficiently consistent with their means of formal communication, a survey by Steelcase, a global office environments manufacturer, indicates,...

August 10, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Maine Supreme Court has ruled that an employer may offset a workers compensation obligation to an injured employee by the lump sum...

August 10, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Legislation meant to demystify 401(k) fees and remove conflicts of interest between mutual fund companies and plan sponsors has prompted concern within retirement...

August 9, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new research paper suggests that measurement of a pension plan's surplus/deficit and its volatility will increasingly become more important than absolute return...

August 9, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans (IFEBP) has reported on what appears to be stricter enforcement by some offices of the Department...

August 9, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Institutional investors have revived their use of commission payments for "soft dollar" allocations, as the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) seems to have...

August 9, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - St. Louis-based General American Life Insurance Company, a unit of MetLife, and a former executive have agreed to a $3.4 million settlement of...

August 9, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal regulators have released a final rule giving the government the ability to fine plan administrators up to $100 per day per violation...

August 9, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) has filed suit against an Orlando company and the fiduciaries of its profit sharing plan, claiming they...

August 9, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans (IFEBP) has reported on what appears to be stricter enforcement by some offices of the Department...

September 20, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - UK workers taking a personal pension payout now have to make due with 75% less than they would have received a decade ago,...

September 20, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - St. Louis attorney Jerome Schlichter, whose law firm recently filed seven federal court lawsuits alleging that 401(k) plans fees were excessive, does not...

September 20, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The San Diego County retirement fund may suffer potential investment losses from the collapse of Greenwich, Connecticut-based Amaranth Advisors LLC, a hedge fund...

August 9, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued Notice 2007-67 extending the time Indian Tribal Governments (ITG) have to amend their plans to satisfy...

August 9, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Public employees in Kentucky can keep their individual retirement account (IRA) assets in a separate account within their 401(k) plan, as of July...

August 9, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers should be aware that their top performing workers could be lured away, so keeping a finger on employees' satisfaction level and keeping...

August 9, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Emerging equity market returns continued to outpace developed market returns in July, according to Standard & Poor's global stock market review, The World...