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January 4, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A report from Vimo.com, an Internet comparison shopping Web site for health care, asserts the low level of participation in health savings accounts...

April 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The gap between assets and benefits in the defined benefit pension plans of 45 states now stands at a collective $260 billion with...

April 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Bank of New York (BoNY) has agreed to acquire Lynch, Jones & Ryan, Inc. (LJR), from the Instinet Group, a BoNY news...

January 4, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Twenty percent of workers are planning on making a job switch this year and nearly half (48%) of them are looking for a...

April 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Dougherty Petroff Associates, Inc. (DPA) has announced that it will acquire Columbia Trust Company (CTC), a subsidiary of Bank of America Corporation.

January 4, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mellon Capital Management Corporation has launched the Mellon Capital Target Maturity Funds, a group of portfolios designed to systematically adjust investors' asset allocation...

January 4, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Sixty-percent of employees plan to look for new jobs this year, but traditional reasons like higher pay or greater flexibility did not rank...

January 4, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Ann Combs, who helped shape national pension and employee benefit policy during five years as head of the Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA),...

April 13, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Bricklayers & Trowel International Pension Fund that owns 4,735 Google shares, out of a total of 297 million, has filed a proposal...

April 13, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A measure requiring the Maine state retirement system to divest itself of holdings in businesses or corporations doing business in Sudan has been...

January 3, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The sluggish growth of Japan's asset management industry is partly due to the reticence of a large number of public pension funds to...

January 3, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Under pressure from regulators, another insurer has decided to stop paying contingent commissions - by 2008.

January 3, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Health spending per capita in the US is much higher than in other countries - at least 24% higher than in the next...

January 3, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court in Lynchburg, Virginia, has handed prison sentences to two executives of a closed wood manufacturing plant for swindling employee...

January 3, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The number of private-sector jobs in December fell for the first time since 2003, dropping by 40,000, according to the ADP Employment Services...

January 3, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The number of online job vacancies took a 10% dive in December by 366,700, but was up 17% from the same period last...

January 3, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nearly half of US workers surveyed by Yahoo! HotJobs said they plan to search for a new job in 2007.

March 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Lone Star State's largest pension fund's underfunding level has increased sharply in the last six months.

January 3, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nearly six in 10 (58%) working Canadians plan to do paid work in retirement - more than double the 23% of current retirees...

January 3, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A survey by Spencer's Benefits Reports found that Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) claim amounts are costing companies about 45% more than...