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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...

August 8, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Invest n Retire, LLC has come out with a product that analyzes the investment allocation of employees' plan contributions to determine whether the...

August 8, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new study co-sponsored by the Wharton Financial Institutions Center at the University of Pennsylvania and New York Life Insurance Company suggests lifetime...

August 8, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Northern Trust will offer to defined contribution plans target date collective funds that are globally diversified and incorporate inflationary hedge asset classes such...

August 8, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - UBS Global Asset Management has come out with a new generation of UBS TargetRetirement Collective Funds that use an actively managed approach.

August 8, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New benefit accounting rules requiring the inclusion of benefit deficits on company balance sheets were expected to have an adverse effect on shareholder...

August 8, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New benefit accounting rules requiring the inclusion of benefit deficits on company balance sheets were expected to have an adverse effect on shareholder...

August 8, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mutual fund assets worldwide increased 4.6% to reach $22.72 trillion at the end of the first quarter of 2007, with net cash flow...

August 8, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mutual fund assets worldwide increased 4.6% to reach $22.72 trillion at the end of the first quarter of 2007, with net cash flow...

August 8, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Delaware has cleared the way for a woman whose husband was killed in a car accident while on a...

August 8, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - One of the women who, it had been predicted, might take over Edward "Ned" Johnson III's reins at Fidelity Investments has announced her...

August 8, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A stock market slump and a sharp drop in interest rates in July caused a decline of 4.4% in the funded status of...

August 8, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Former Brocade Communications CEO Gregory Reyes was convicted Tuesday on 10 felony counts relating to the backdating of stock options in the first...

August 8, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued new publications to explain how the 409A nonqualified deferred comepsnation rules may apply to school district...