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November 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Utah Department of Health has announced a new program to give employed residents of the state assistance in paying for their employer-sponsored...

November 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new study has found that companies are increasingly moving sophisticated critical functions to China, India and other offshore locations mostly because that...

November 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has reached a settlement with Cigna on a claim that the company's customer service call center in...

November 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A North Carolina arbitrator has started hearings into whether about 70 Philip Morris USA workers fired for lying on hardship withdrawal documents from...

November 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nearly three-fourths (73%) of board members of US financial services firms surveyed by PricewaterhouseCoopers said they have been spending less time on strategic...

November 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Financial risk management firm RiskMetrics Group announced Wednesday it will purchase Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS), a provider of proxy voting and corporate...

November 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Companies will likely consider investment approaches that better hedge their long-term pension liabilities as they react to the Pension Protection Act (PPA) and...

November 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer announced a settlement agreement with UnumProvident Corporation on charges of deceptive practices in broker and consultant pay.

November 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The gap between mutual fund ownership outside of retirement plans and inside of retirement plans narrowed in 2006, a recent survey by the...

October 31, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - At a time when demand for talent is high and the pool of available talent is shrinking, accounting firms are not delivering on...

October 31, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Total compensation costs for civilian, private industry, and state and local government employers were little changed in the quarter ending September 2006 from...

October 31, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Five hospitals in South Florida have announced they will give preferential status to vendors who provide health insurance to their employees.

October 31, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Staffing company Manpower Inc. announced that it has beefed up its social responsibility program to encompass a broader range of initiatives.

October 31, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Wealth Management Systems Inc. (WMSI) has announced it has upgraded its automatic rollover program to facilitate rollovers from a Roth 401(k) account.

October 31, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Christopher Cox said Monday new charges on suspicious timing of stock option grants can be expected in...

October 31, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While a new PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) survey found a continuation of the decline in the use of stock option grants in equity compensation practices,...

October 31, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The investment management division of Morgan Stanley has announced an agreement to acquire FrontPoint Partners, a Greenwich, Connecticut firm with approximately $5.5 billion...

October 31, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged auto parts supplier Delphi Corporation and 13 individuals with fraud in connection with a scheme...

October 30, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A West Hartford, Connecticut man, who was convicted of charges in connection with a Connecticut state pension fund scandal, has been sentenced to...

October 30, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a ruling that insurance claims adjusters are exempt from overtime pay under the Fair...