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July 23, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new notice from the Internal Revenue Service says that guidance under § 457 is coming for nonqualified deferred compensation plans of state...

July 23, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania said that Unisys Corp. would have to restore the free or low-cost retiree...

July 23, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Three former senior officials of a St. Louis-based defense contractor have been indicted by a federal grand jury in connection with a scheme...

July 23, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Retired Oregon public employees whose pensions have been frozen without cost-of-living adjustments in four years will see a 2% increase in their payouts,...

July 23, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Many 403(b) plan sponsors will be breathing a sigh of relief with word that final Internal Revenue Service (IRS) regulations are generally not...

July 23, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Indiana has hit a health care company with a $9,800-penalty under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) for...

July 23, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Hartford Financial Services Group has agreed to pay $115 million to settle allegations by the states of Connecticut, Illinois and New York...

July 23, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Genworth Financial, Inc. has named Chris Grady President of its Retirement Income business.

July 23, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Bankrate, Inc. has found in a survey that over half of Americans polled (54%) are not equipped with an emergency savings fund equal...

July 23, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More than half of financial institutions in a recent survey see organized crime, increased employee access to technology and poor hiring and screening...

CHICAGO - The current lobbying battle to get stable value options listed as approved default investment options aside, Susan Walton thinks making the addition would be a very...

CHICAGO - Anyone who thought Congress was through with pension legislation after last year's Pension Protection Act (PPA) might well be seriously mistaken - at least if one...

CHICAGO - Cash balance plans have been through a lot the past few years - Congressional attacks, a frozen determination letter process, several participant lawsuits - and the...

CHICAGO - Plans with company stock as an investment option have always been high on the target list for plaintiffs' lawyers.

CHICAGO - To hear James Clary tell it, the world of deferred compensation was in dire need of regulatory direction before the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued its...

CHICAGO - The current trials and travails of defined benefit plans aside, should plan sponsors still consider opening - or reopening - their own?

CHICAGO - When Boeing investment officials pondered the idea of adding a 401(k) lifecycle option in 2005, they came up with an unusual request.

CHICAGO - This may go down as the era of auto enrollment, but nothing about that participation-boosting trend means education is any less important to helping employees be...

CHICAGO - For many plan sponsors, providers and advisers these days, the devil has a face and a name - St. Louis attorney Jerome Schlichter.

July 20, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The trustees of Buffalo Color Corp's two employee pension plans must pay $300,000 to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), as the plan's...