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May 18, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Investors focus primarily on fees, historical performance and risk when purchasing funds, according to a survey from the Investment Company Institute (ICI).

June 5, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A group of independent 401(k) plan recordkeepers has formed a new organization called the Council of Independent 401(k) Recordkeepers (CIKR).

May 18, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Routine corporate actions such as takeovers, stock splits, spin-offs, rights issues and exchange offers can impact trading prices and volumes, according to a...

June 5, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - State Street Corporation clients will be able to better monitor their real estate investment portfolios with new online performance analytics and risk assessment...

May 18, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Affiliated Computer Services Inc. (ACS) has revealed that it received a federal grand jury information demand for documents on the stock options it...

May 18, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In an effort to reduce turnover among its top investment officials, California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) trustees approved an immediate 1% pay...

May 18, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America and RS Investments announced that the New York-based insurer will acquire a 65% interest in RS,...

May 18, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In what is being reported as one of the most hefty awards of its kind ever to be imposed on a Wall Street...

June 4, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Prudential Financial, Inc. has come out with a group of variable universal life insurance contracts for informally funding nonqualified benefit plans, including Supplemental...

June 4, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Kentucky Attorney General Greg Stumbo has issued a formal opinion that programs at the University of Kentucky and University of Louisville that would...

June 4, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More than half of employers (55%) see employee retention as the most important reason for offering benefits, a recent report by MetLife found.

June 4, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A committee of the Stanford Institutional Investors' Forum at Stanford Law School, in cooperation with the Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for...

April 18, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A study from The Hackett Group found that companies outsource only 4% of financial processes.

April 18, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The federal Thrift Savings Plan board is resisting Congressional efforts to add a real estate investment option to the retirement savings program.

June 4, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers and employees alike can learn more about the compensation practice from a new free online database.

April 18, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two officials charged in the San Diego pension fraud case will have lawyers appointed for them by the court.

June 4, 2007 (PLANPSONSOR.com) - Gabelli Funds, LLC has just made an initial public offering of its socially responsible investment company Gabelli SRI Fund Inc.

June 4, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The AIG Employee Benefit Solutions group has added dental products and features that include AIG High-Low Dental, which allows employees to choose from...

June 4, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors of prototype Roth IRAs interested in taking rollovers from 402A Roth Accounts first have to change their IRA documents to be...

April 18, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The pension funds of the S&P 500 companies saw an improvement last year, but are still underfunded by $145 billion, according to one...