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August 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a paper prepared for the annual conference of the Retirement Research Consortium (RRC) earlier this month, John Shoven and Sita Slavov analyze...

January 8, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Alaska Supreme Court has rebuffed an appeal by former state employees now living outside Alaska who claimed they deserved the same 10%...

January 8, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The investment management arm of State Street Global Corporation is rebranding its exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in an effort to bring more clarity to...

January 8, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Hewitt Associates has found in its research that the attraction and retention of pivotal employees plays a critical role in increasing shareholder value...

January 8, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Marlborough, Massachusetts, benefits outsourcer has announced a partnership with online health Web site WebMD to provide employees of client companies with medical...

January 8, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pension risk in some European Union countries might sway companies' decisions on where to set up shop, according to a recent analysis by...

January 8, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case that alleges a Coca-Cola bottling company fired an employee, who had refused to...

August 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fidelity Investment has joined forces with four partners in a sweeping new effort to create an electronic trading network seeking as much as...

August 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A review committee has placed part of the blame for the deficit at a Swiss teachers pension fund on the fund's consultant who...

July 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An influential UK think tank now asserts that the country's retirement age should be bumped up to 67 by 2030 to solve the...

July 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new state commission looking into Vermont's policy toward one of its public retirement plans was scheduled to have its maiden meeting Monday.

July 13, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) reacted to the stock options backdating controversy with a lawsuit over the issue against UnitedHealth Group...

July 13, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Many TIAA-CREF participants want their social values to be reflected in their investments, according to a new survey.

July 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - BISYS announced Monday that it was conducting settlement discussions with staff members of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) about the agency's...

July 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Colorado Public Employees' Retirement Association (PERA) plans to report a widening shortfall to the state's Legislative Audit Committee this week.

July 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Montana's two largest retirement systems, the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) and the Teachers Retirement System (TRS), face a potential deficit of $1.2...

June 13, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two more large US pension funds filed suits against companies that are tied up in the mounting investigation over stock option backdating.

June 13, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has announced that a bankruptcy court has ruled to uphold the termination of the United Airlines Pilots'...

June 13, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two pension funds have worked out a $311 million settlement agreement with Williams Companies concerning stock manipulation allegations.

May 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A New York state judge threw out seven counts of falsifying business records against former Bank of America employee Theodore Sihpol after the...