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March 30, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Profit Sharing/401(k) Council of America (PSCA) is using its National 401(k) Day materials to launch a year-round campaign designed to promote awareness...

March 30, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has found that an employer that amended its retirement plan to provide no contributions did not...

March 30, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Sunday, of course, is April 1 - April Fool's Day - and the San Diego-based Museum of Hoaxes has chronicled what it terms...

March 30, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) does not require a Summary Plan...

March 30, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) has announced an expansion of its supplemental retirement savings program with the addition of 457 and...

March 30, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan has dismissed claims a group of retired law firm partners brought against their...

March 29, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fewer Americans age 50 and older received pension/annuity income from a public-sector plan than from a private-sector plan in 2005, but the public...

March 29, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Driven by demographic trends and the development of products that address guaranteed income and principal protection, annuity assets are expected to swell nearly...

March 29, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Global hedge fund assets have now reached more than $2 trillion, according to newsletter publisher HedgeFund Intelligence.

March 29, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Georgia Supreme Court has upheld a ruling that gives workers' compensation benefits to the dependent son of a man killed in a...

March 29, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - MSCI Barra on Thursday announced the details of the MSCI Global Investable Market Indices methodology and the plan for transitioning the MSCI Standard...

March 29, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employer costs for employee compensation averaged $27.54 per hour worked in December 2006, the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)...

March 29, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Forty-one percent of U.S. employers are having trouble finding talented workers to fill positions, down from the 44% who said they had trouble...

March 29, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Advisory Group of San Francisco has launched a suite of services to help employers optimize their 401(k) plan and costs to determine...

March 29, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers are cautiously exploring new retiree medical strategies in light of the Medicare Modernization Act, a new survey has found.

March 29, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Workers are apparently getting more comfortable with the Internet as a way to select and update their workplace benefits, suggests Workscape, Inc., which...

March 29. 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Both chambers of Maryland's General Assembly have passed legislation giving the state pension system the authority to dump its holdings in Sudan-linked firms,...

March 29, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fidelity Investments has decided to drop its traditional pension plan for roughly 32,000 of its employees and to instead offer a richer 401(k)...

March 28, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The path to corporate success is changing to include an increased emphasis on "soft management tools" such as corporate culture, environmental protection and...

March 28, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - They say a picture is worth a thousand words - but a moving picture?