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April 12, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new Washington, D.C.-based research organization aimed at boosting understanding of the traditional pension system has elected its first board of directors and...

April 12, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The West Virginia Consolidated Public Retirement Board (CPRB) has decided to ask the state Supreme Court to overturn a ruling that the proposed...

April 11, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Americans may be talking more about the environment, but it's not the kind of "green" that seems to be a factor in choosing...

April 12, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As far as the vast majority of the U.S. workers are concerned, their employer-provided health care benefits are just what the doctor ordered.

December 28, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Eighty-two percent of the reported profit for Lucent Technologies Inc. for the fiscal year that ended on September 30 comes from its $973-million...

April 12, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Just because the nation's private-sector pension insurer has a ceiling governing the maximum benefit it can pay to participants in plans it takes...

April 12, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has kept alive a fiduciary breach lawsuit by employees of Fifth Third Bancorp alleging the company improperly allowed continued retirement...

April 12, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fixed income managers alert - one or more Dutch industry-wide pension funds are using IPE-Quest to tender for fixed income and real estate...

April 12, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An executive talent crunch is poised to challenge companies in the year ahead, particularly in the high-tech, health care, and business services sectors,...

April 12, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fearing that the pension plan covering about 1,300 Anchor Hocking CG Operating Company workers and retirees may be abandoned, the nation's private-sector pension...

April 12, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As many in the benefits community continue slogging through the 398-page release of the final 409A regulations, one analysis suggested it did not...

April 11, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - JPMorgan Worldwide Securities Services has released an investment manager scoring tool and a new system to explore different risk levels resulting from asset...

April 11, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - U.S. pension funds and endowments raised their stakes in hedge funds, private equity and international equities in 2006, but scaled back on domestic...

April 11, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - U.S. pension funds and endowments raised their stakes in hedge funds, private equity and international equities in 2006, but scaled back on domestic...

April 11, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new study of defined benefit pension plan funding has joined a recent chorus of similar reports in the retirement services space in...

April 11, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Despite a flurry of hard- and soft-freezes, a new study finds a surprisingly strong commitment to defined benefit programs among corporate plan sponsors....

November 28, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mutual fund group Federated Investors has agreed to pay $72 million to settle government allegations of improper fund share trading, authorities said on...

April 11, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Forty-five percent of U.S. workers are less confident that they can count on traditional pensions when they retire as a result of recent...

November 21, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The UK's pension system is "performing comparatively well" among other European Union nations, but that doesn't give the British government any room to...

November 28, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A survey by Deloitte & Touche LLP shows that 80% of multinational companies are considering pension pooling solutions.