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January 18, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Supreme Court has turned down a request to hear a case in which an appellate court decided a retiree could not...

January 17, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New employees are being allowed to get up to speed in their company's 401(k) plan more quickly than a year ago, according to...

January 17, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More than three-quarters (76%) of U.S. workers report to a Caucasian boss and a third (34%) have a female boss, according to a...

January 17, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has handed a business lobbying group a legal victory by upholding a lower court ruling that threw out a...

January 17, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's private-sector pension insurer has taken responsibility for the two pension plans of a now-liquidated maker of plastic automobile components.

January 17, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Russell Investment Group unveiled a new index Wednesday meant to satiate asset managers' increasing thirst for more global investment options.

January 17, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal employees generally favor changes to the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) that the board is considering requesting from the new Congress, such as...

January 17, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In spite of additional information security efforts announced last June by officials of the federal employees' Thrift Savings Plan (TSP), in late December...

January 17, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor (DoL) has issued advisory opinion letter FLSA 2006-42, in which it decided that the position of IT Support Specialist...

January 17, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday approved by voice vote a measure that could limit the earnings corporate executives can defer into...

January 17, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Newly released results of a study from Fidelity Investments indicate Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) are not generally being used as a primary retirement...

January 17, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -The latest Standard & Poor's Indices Versus Active Funds Scorecard (SPIVA) shows the S&P 500 outperformed 69.1% of large-cap funds.

January 17, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new paper released by JPMorgan Asset Management (JPMAM) suggests that pension plans should adopt a risk management approach similar to the one...

January 16, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Despite a desire by many in the retirement services community for legal clarity in the continuing hot button issue of cash balance plans,...

January 16, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is looking to take back the pensions of corrupt public officials - including none other than former Nutmeg...

January 16, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - About 400 workers at a Smithfield Foods Inc. hog slaughtering plant walked out or did not come to work for their first shift...

January 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Companies' neglect in tracking employees' time off is costing employers millions of dollars in payroll expenses and employee productivity, according to a recent...

January 16, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has taken responsibility for the pensions of more than 900 former employees of bankrupt Foss Manufacturing Co....

January 16, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Cash balance moratorium plans considered by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) as being in Cycle A according to a 2005 revenue procedure have...

January 16, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Los Angeles investment company has unveiled four new asset allocation mutual funds.