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April 3, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - AXA Distributors is embarking on a full out advertising campaign that includes education materials, free coffee and television spots featuring an 800-pound gorilla...

April 3, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - At the heart of the recently announced mega-deal in which the Chicago Tribune newspaper company will go private is the company's employee stock...

March 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The CEO of the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan (OTPP) is calling for benefit cuts and an increase in member contributions to reduce the...

April 3, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's private-sector pension insurer has $133 million in its coffers belonging to 32,000 people owed pension benefits from terminated plans who the...

April 3, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - There is no conclusive evidence to show health maintenance organizations (HMOs) are more financially efficient on a national basis, according to a new...

March 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - WCI Steel has agreed to give noteholders a majority stake and pay as much as $25 million to preserve its pension plan under...

March 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal and market regulators have hit Bear Stearns with a $250 million penalty for market timing and late trading of mutual funds.

April 3, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - WisdomTree Investments has created a business unit to deliver exchange traded funds (ETFs) to the 401(k) marketplace and hired industry veteran Al Shemtob...

April 3, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Northern Trust has enhanced its performance reporting capabilities for institutional investors and investment managers to enable stock-level attribution.

March 28, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Not only may hedge fund investors have to make do with lower returns in coming months, but the systemic risk of the hedge...

April 3, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The National Technical Information Service (NTIS) has announced the official version of the Social Security Administration's Death Master File is now available in...

April 3, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Denver attorney whose office building apparently made her sick was entitled to disability payments, an appellate court has ruled.

April 3, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Smokers take more sick leave than their colleague who don't smoke, according to a survey of Swedish workers, the Denver Channel reported.

February 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) officials reported this week that restrictions placed on investments in emerging markets have caused the system to...

April 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Overall participation in tax-favored retirement plans remained stable at 50% between 2000 and 2003, a participation rate slightly less than in 1997, according...

April 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A bipartisan group of Congressional lawmakers has came up with legislation blocking insurance companies from not paying for injuries while doing activities such...

April 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - FTSE Group and Research Affiliates have licensed Charles Schwab Investment Management to be the exclusive provider of non exchange-traded equity mutual funds in...

April 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - AllianceBernstein is now offering target-date retirement portfolios for large defined contribution plans in which the plan sponsors can choose how much of their...

April 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Prudential Financial, Inc.'s mutual fund family JennisonDryden has named Michael Rosenberg, formerly of Goldman Sachs, as its senior vice president to lead Prudential's...

April 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Many baby boomers will face the first phase of retirement needing more money than they previously anticipated, a new survey reported.