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November 8, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - MeadWestvaco Corporation has announced it is changing its US defined benefit pension plan covering salaried and non-union hourly employees, adding a cash balance...

August 23, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Brookfield, Wisconsin group has found that nine in 10 multiemployer benefit plans use the courts in their efforts to collect required employer...

August 23, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The state of South Carolina wants the state's Supreme Court to review two cases for which it says prior rulings imply state pension...

November 8, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. has announced a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) related to its use of directed...

November 7, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A national survey from Vault Inc. found 61% of workers exited on bad terms with an employer, and many did not leave peacefully.

November 7, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Wearing suits to work is losing ground to a more casual dress code, perhaps to the detriment of worker career advancement, a survey...

November 7, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Results from Sibson's 2006 Rewards of Work Survey show American employees today are less satisfied with key work elements than in prior years.

November 7, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - To help marketers more accurately target the baby boomer generation, the market research firm of Chadwick Martin Bailey (CMB), in conjunction with Arnold...

November 7, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Seventy percent of small companies plan to hire next year, but employers are concerned they may be scraping for talented workers, according to...

November 7, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal law enforcement officials have arrested the CEO of White Plains, New York-based Compulinx and issued an eight-count indictment charging him with stealing...

November 7, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - MassMutual's Retirement Services Division has announced the appointment of Marie Augsberger to the newly created position of chief operating officer (COO).

November 7, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Rydex Investments has announced the launch of nine equal weight sector exchange traded funds (ETFs) based on the S&P Equal Weight Sector Indices.

July 11, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A California judge rebuffed efforts to decide before trial whether the pension benefit hikes San Diego city workers received in the last 10...

July 11, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - At least one prominent international firm appears to be temporarily backing away from plans to move workers from a defined benefit to a...

June 23, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - American Airlines officials say they agree with the notion that defined benefit pension plans should have to be 100% funded, but claim it...

November 6, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More than one-third of organizations surveyed for the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) said they are allowing employees paid time off to...

June 23, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Government employers are soon to be held to a new accounting standard relating to the funding of post-retirement benefits.

November 6, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new study from the Investment Company Institute (ICI) shows that 401(k) plans, originally perceived as a supplement to worker pensions, now have...

June 23, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - UK Retailer, Boots, which made a high-profile switch into an all-bond portfolio in 2001, says its strategy of using swaps to match pension...

November 6, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A recent survey has found a link between perceived financial transparency of pharmacy benefit managers and client satisfaction.