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August 3, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - Employers offering cafeteria plan benefits are getting new guidance with the release of new proposed reorganized and updated regulations for the plans from...

August 3, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Barton has dealt another blow to San Diego City Attorney Michael Aguirre's quest to roll back certain city pension...

August 3, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Eighty five percent of respondents said they believe tattoos and body piercings impede one's chances of finding a job, according to career publisher...

August 3, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Senior management received only mediocre marks from Human Resource professionals for communicating with employees, according to a survey by Novations Group, a global...

August 3, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Barclays Global Investors (BGI) has announced the launch of the iShares S&P World ex-U.S. Property Index Fund on the NYSE.

August 3, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Morgan Stanley has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit that accused the investment bank of discriminating against black and Latino employees in its...

August 3, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - Like patriotic lawmakers voting for proclamations supporting Moms and apple pie, correspondents to the U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) with input on the...

August 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Massachusetts state pension system lost $30 million with this week's collapse of hedge fund Sowood Capital Management LP, the Boston Globe reported.

August 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Massachusetts state pension system lost $30 million with this week's collapse of hedge fund Sowood Capital Management LP, the Boston Globe reported.

August 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nine U.S. equity investment styles posted negative returns in July, with greatest drop coming from SmallCap 600, according to Standard & Poor's.

August 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance Co. (GWLA) has agreed to acquire Franklin Templeton Investment's 401(k) recordkeeping business, the firms announced.

August 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - DBRS, a Toronto-based credit rating agency, has concluded from its annual study assessing pension plans "…that public perception of serious funding problems in...

August 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Initial Public Offering (IPO) companies are less likely to offer stock options as a form of employee compensation than they were in 2004,...

August 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Illinois teacher retirement system has named Juan Lopez, Jr., to lead its Emerging Managers Program, which was formed to help support new...

August 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Compensation for financial professionals bested the national workforce average by more than 50%, continuing the trend of previous years, a new survey has...

August 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two-thirds of active international equity portfolios outperformed the MSCI EAFE Index return of 10.7% for the first six months of 2007, according to...

August 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Workplace salary budgets - the total amount allocated for all employee salaries - are expected to reflect a 3.9% increase this year and...

August 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The number of Americans age 55 and older doing full-time, full-year work is increasing and occurs across various demographic groups according to an...

August 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - MetLife Resources and MetLife Securities, Inc have entered into a new alliance with ProManage, LLC, a registered investment adviser that specializes in providing...

August 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - BNY Mellon Asset Servicing has come out with a corporate governance reporting tool to alert institutional investors about upcoming shareholder meetings, its positions...