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May 7, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - T. Rowe Price has unveiled an expanded Web site for advisers and other financial intermediaries that it said provides streamlined access to institutional...

May 7, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The assets in U.S.-listed exchange-traded funds (ETFs) climbed 5% during April, with International and Specialty ETFs making the biggest leap, according to recent...

May 7, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - For plan sponsors not going the automatic enrollment route, an earnest effort at communicating plan features to participants simply can propel an increase...

May 7, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Retirement assets reached $16.4 trillion at the end of 2006, propelled largely by an increase in individual retirement accounts (IRAs) and DC plans,...

July 29, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Funding gaps in West Virginia's pension plans were slightly narrowed by greater than expected investment returns for the year ended June 30, 2005.

May 7, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The pension deficits of FTSE100 companies have eased by an estimated £20 billion over the last year, but a UK-based pension consultant suggests...

May 7, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -Standard & Poor's said Monday that emerging and developed markets ended the month of April in positive territory, their second consecutive month with such...

May 7, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Texas Municipal Retirement System (TMRS) Board has selected Eric Henry, the head of Pennsylvania's employee retirement system, to be its new executive...

July 17, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - UK companies funnel an average of 19.6% of their employees' salaries into defined benefit pension plans, and 17% of firms say the payments...

July 17, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new analysis released by the University of Iowa estimates that 29.2% of companies have backdated options and also tabulated that 13.6% of...

June 29, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Pennsylvania beer company known for its aluminum bottles has warned that it will close up shop entirely unless it is allowed to...

May 17, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Even though chief financial officers (CFOs) are aware that productivity is lost from their workers' health-related absences or from workers feeling ill at...

May 17, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New York state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, in the midst of a wide-ranging examination of how providers market retirement products and services, has...

May 17, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Assistant Secretary Mark Warshawsky of the Treasury Department discussed the effects of pension funding and accounting reforms on equity values and interest rates...

May 17, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Vitesse Semiconductor Corp. has terminated its chief executive officer (CEO) and chief financial officer (CFO) as a result of its internal probe into...

April 29, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The average funding ratio of multiemployer plans was 83% in 2004, according to a Segal survey.

April 29, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Despite other airlines dropping their pensions, union leaders and executives at American Airlines are continuing to stick to their game plan of keeping...

April 29, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Hartford Financial Services Group has set aside a $66-million reserve to have funds available to resolve federal and state government market timing...

May 4¸ 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - Hiring activity by U.S. managers was weaker than expected in April as the total of new jobs showed the weakest gain in more...

May 4, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A measure to give Verizon Communications Inc. shareholders a say about senior executive pay packages won nearly 50% of the vote at its...