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February 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation's (PBGC) sale of UAL Corp. stock produced a $135 million boost for the UAL pension plans the agency...

April 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Corporate pension plans saw their financial health significantly improved in 2006 with the funding ratio jumping from 93% to 101% and a $83.5...

April 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Participant enrollment in health savings accounts (HSAs) that are linked to high-deductible health plans (HDHPs) increased in both the individual and group markets,...

February 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Lucent Technologies shareholders have approved a pair of nonbinding measures designed to pressure the company to tie the compensation of executives to the...

April 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Even though the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has signaled its intention to end its historical age 60 pilot retirement rule, a new...

April 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers expect to hire slightly more college graduates this year, but 63% don't foresee entry-level wages to escalate over last year, according to...

February 28, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS), one the largest public pension funds in Canada, posted 12.1% gains in 2004, but is still...

April 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Troubles in the sub-prime mortgage lender sector have pummeled the stock price of those providers.

April 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In an effort to reduce the number of Americans without a will and to help participants protect their assets, the Principal Financial Group...

April 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Lexington-Fayette (Kentucky) Urban County government has been ordered to pay for health benefits for all retirees - including those who had chosen...

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...

January 28, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Time Warner has doubled its annual cash retainer paid to non-employee board members, according to Dow Jones.

January 28, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - San Diego's pension mess continued to simmer Thursday when the city's retirement board sued City Attorney Michael Aguirre to keep him from controlling...

January 28, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The New Jersey Assembly has approved legislation that would ban state public pension funds from investing in companies that do business in Sudan.

March 30, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Over the past 12 months, ETF assets increased $110.99 billion (34.4%), according to the Investment Company Institute.

March 30, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Equity funds continued to attract new money in February, though the flows to world equity funds slackened a bit.

March 30, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The San Diego County Employees Retirement Association (SDCERA) has sued Amaranth Advisors, LLC, three of its officers, and its former natural gas trader,...