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April 10, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nearly 30% of baby boomers have saved less than $25,000 for their retirement and nearly the same amount (31%) say they will not...

April 10, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Ohio Valley Health Services and Education Corp. is freezing the defined benefit plans of two of its subsidiaries and eliminating its 6%...

April 10, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has reinstated a lawsuit filed by a female deputy sheriff who alleged she was illegally kept from moving to...

April 9, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A lesbian teacher in the U.K. was awarded £20,000 in compensation in a suit that claimed she was denied paternity leave when her...

April 9, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Congressional lawmaker from the state of Washington has introduced legislation that would give employer-provided health care for domestic partners the same tax...

April 9, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson vetoed a measure raising the pension benefits of the state's legislators.

April 9, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Portfolio managers invest more heavily in stock holdings of firms that are run by individuals who went to the same college the managers...

September 28, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new study by Pearl Meyer & Partners (PMP) found that average director compensation is seeing double digit increases due to increased responsibilities...

April 9, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A well-known ERISA litigation firm has turned its attention to the 403(b) market.

April 9, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Winnipeg-based Great-West Lifeco Inc., one of Canada's largest insurers, announced Monday that its American subsidiary has agreed to buy an 80% stake...

April 9, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A week after the California State Teachers Retirement System (CalSTRS) turned away from a broad-based ban on pension investments in Iran or terrorist...

September 28, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Despite underfunding of pensions for US investor-owned power and gas companies, Fitch Ratings says no ratings actions are likely.

April 9, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The typical U.S. pension fund started 2007 with a funding ratio of approximately 103% and ended the quarter at 105%, mostly due to...

September 28, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A bankruptcy judge has decided that the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) can take over the United Air Lines pension plan for pilots...

April 9, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Shareholders are apparently moving closer to getting their money's worth in the executive suite, a new Mercer Human Resource Consulting survey indicated.

September 28, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A consulting company that had been serving as an actuary for the City of San Diego has decided to bail out of any...

April 9, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Virginia will start automatically enrolling its state employees into defined contribution plans for all workers hired after January 1, 2008.

August 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US employees of Tyco International have won class action status in a lawsuit, claiming the company deceived them regarding company stock as an...

August 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two dozen public employee organizations have fired a pre-emptive strike, designed to help direct a government study of the health of public defined...

August 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Thirty business executives have signed onto a business journal article that calls for federal regulators to revoke the new rule requiring the expensing...