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January 9, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -The world's emerging and developed markets continued to stay in positive territory in December, making a full year of positive results as oil prices...

January 9, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - AllianceBernstein Institutional Investments announced Tuesday that Sharon French has been named as managing director of defined contribution business development and client relations.

January 9, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - BISYS Fund Services has tapped Joseph Mrak as senior vice president and general manager for its managed account outsourcing business, WealthSolutions.

January 9, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The clients of equity research firm Gradient Analytics, Inc. will now have access to its Backdating Risk Assessment List, which includes 532 companies...

January 9, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com - The European Commission announced Tuesday that it was taking Sweden to the European Court of Justice because it taxes payments to foreign pensions...

January 9, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A survey from Accenture of middle managers in nine countries found less than four in ten (39%) said they are 'very' or 'extremely'...

January 9, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Even though most defined benefit plan sponsors in a recent poll acknowledged their pension staff members should be focusing on risk management, too...

January 9, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - One of the most controversial cash balance plan conversions could get its day in the nation's highest court, if US Supreme Court justices...

January 9, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Health plans had the highest expense-to-asset ratio of all benefit program types, according to a recent survey on the fund office administration for...

August 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Hedge fund assets, now at $1 trillion, will at least double by 2009, quadruple to $4 trillion by 2013 and sextuple to $6...

August 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service is asking a bankruptcy court to determine that millions of dollars in securities and notes United Airlines plans to...

August 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The outsourcing industry in India has started a project to compile work histories of its workers in an effort to combat data fraud.

January 8, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nearly one in five managers admit to reading work-related e-mail and documents while in the bathroom and nearly half work while driving, according...

January 8, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - If you are looking for ground zero for hiring $100,000+ employees these days, San Francisco appears to fit the bill, according to a...

January 8, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - CIGNA HealthCare announced it is offering the availability of health savings accounts (HSAs) through JPMorgan Chase to employers with fewer than 50 employees.

August 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Despite the insistence of San Diego pension fund officials that internal fund documents are protected by attorney-client privilege, a federal judge has ordered...

January 8, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Four out of 10 Canadians have made an average of three withdrawals from their retirement savings, according to a survey from Scotiabank.

January 8, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A U.S. Senator has a solution to the problem of retirement saving procrastination - starting at birth.

January 8, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in California has thrown out a lawsuit by pension plan participants against the nation's private-sector pension insurer charging the agency...

January 8, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new study by a Greensboro, North Carolina-based executive benefit consultant has found virtually all of the 276 "most admired" US firms it...