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February 9, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Participants entered the New Year in a mood for trading, according to the Hewitt 401(k) index.

September 14, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - If ruling Social Democrats are returned to office in Swedish elections this weekend, pension officials in that country will be prohibited from supporting...

September 26, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new survey found that many top companies are creating a new leadership position, lead director, to share duties with the chairman of...

September 14, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A New York City stockbroker on Thursday became the latest to be charged in New York state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's investigation of...

February 9, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - SunGard has announced a joint marketing agreement between its ProNvest and Signix business units with Wealth Management Systems Inc. (WMSI), a provider of...

February 9, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The number of retirees with health benefits has held steady, but might be on the decline as the premium contributions required by employers...

February 8, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Three lesbian couples have sued New Mexico's Retiree Health Authority, contesting the agency's refusal to grant health insurance benefits to domestic partners of...

February 8, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A California CPA firm was ordered by a federal district court in Atlanta to make a restitution payment of $5,000 to the employee...

August 26, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Consolidation continued in the US retirement plan recordkeeping field with word that Federated Investors was selling its recordkeeping business to Great West.

August 26, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Not surprisingly, with a raft of new Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) responsibilities and potentially higher director liability, 65% of senior financial executives say it's now...

February 8, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Internal Revenue Service officials have announced an initiative aimed at providing relief for rank-and-file employees affected by their companies' issuance of backdated and...

February 8, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Worker productivity increases and employee turnover decreases when employees are engaged at work, according to a recent survey by Segal/Sibson.

February 8, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The fourth quarter of 2006 saw a strong performance from U.S. equity markets with modest overall economic growth and a subsiding of inflation...

February 8, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The percentage of working heads of families who participated in an employer plan dropped more than 2% from 2001 to 2004, according to...

February 8, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Mellon Analytical Solutions U.S. Master Trust Universe of 434 corporate, foundation, endowment, public, Taft-Hartley and health care funds turned in a 5.81%...

February 8, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Pennsylvania heavy plate and structural fabricator was within its rights when it reduced a worker's benefits by forcing the employee to resign...

August 14, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Some US cities are not faring well when it comes to funding their employees' pensions, with the average pension funding level in the...

August 26, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Martin Druffner, a former Prudential Securities broker, has been charged with four counts of wire fraud and four counts of securities fraud for...

August 14, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The calendar may say 2006, but it looks like 2005 is a year that Hewitt Associates would just as soon forget.

August 14, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Participants in John Hancock 401(k) plans who invested only in a target-risk lifestyle portfolio from 2001 to 2005 posted better returns than plan...