Latest News

March 7, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nearly 60% of workers don't know how they would financially manage a disability that robs them of an income and almost half of...

March 7, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A survey of U.S. employers and employees found that neither believes current employer benefit programs are living up to their potential.

March 7, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A freight hauling company mistakenly required an employee on medical leave to also burn up paid sick and vacation leave, a federal appellate...

June 15, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Michaels Stores Inc. has said it understated compensation expenses by as much as $60 million between 1999 and 2001 due to backdating stock...

March 6, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) on Tuesday said the productivity of American workers during the fourth quarter of 2006 was actually a...

March 6, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Chicago-based Longevity Alliance has unveiled a new service for middle-market retirees that features investment diversification to minimize risk and income planning and portfolio...

June 27, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) has issued Statement No. 47, Accounting for Termination Benefits to provide guidance for state and local governments...

March 6, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Some of people's biggest problems with communication come in sharing new information with people they know well, newly published research at the University...

March 6, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new Watson Wyatt analysis has found that younger, lower-paid workers are not the only ones dragging their feet about getting into their...

March 6, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - AIM Investments has launched a series of six target-date maturity portfolios that feature actively managed mutual funds.

June 27, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new survey by a California professional services firm specializing in audits and risk management has indicated that more than half of the...

March 6, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Congressional hearing addressed Tuesday whether fees paid by 401(k) participants take too big a chunk out of workers' retirement savings and whether...

June 15, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new report from Mercer Human Resource Consulting and Mercer Investment Consulting finds that the rise in interest rates in the first five...

March 6, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The use of international assignments is not only growing, its role is changing, according to ORC Worldwide's 2006 Worldwide Survey of International Assignment...

March 6, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Stock and bond funds experienced net inflows of $52.9 billion in January, following a net intake of $39.4 billion in December, according to...

March 6, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With March Madness just around the corner, a new survey claims that office pool betting is gaining in popularity.

June 15, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An investigation of the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation regarding bribery for investment contracts has expanded to include the state's five public pension...

March 6, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal rulemaking generated by the Pension Protection Act (PPA) continued Tuesday with the U.S. Department of Labor's (DoL) unveiling of an interim final...

June 15, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has so far received 235 letters in response to its proposals, which includes forcing companies to put...

March 6, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich has proposed using money from privatizing the Illinois lottery to help struggling pension systems.