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October 9, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As details emerge on specific charges against companies accused of excessive and undisclosed 401(k) fees, it is reported that Northrop Grumman Corp. charged...

October 9, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Kentucky Retirement Systems filed an insurance claim alleging that two former system officials breached their fiduciary duties during the process of a...

October 9, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fidelity Investments' has created a 401(k) plan benchmarking tool allowing small business owners to gauge how well their plans are faring.

October 9, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - DST Systems, a Kansas City, Missouri-based recordkeeping services provider, is adding automatic investment selection and automatic deferral to its existing automatic enrollment capabilities.

October 9, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mercer Global Investments (MGI) announced Monday it is expanding its $12 billion multi-manager business to Europe, having already gained $500 million in European...

October 9, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A class action lawsuit over the payment of overtime compensation at Wells Fargo & Co. bank is the subject of a $12.8-million settlement...

September 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Marsh & McLennan, the nation's largest insurance broker, has agreed to a multi-state regulatory settlement with more than 30 state insurance regulators covering...

October 9, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In unusually curt terms, a federal appeals court has upheld a lower court ruling denying allegations by a former IBM senior engineer that...

September 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal on Thursday amended his pending lawsuit against giant insurance broker Marsh & McLennan to add new allegations of...

October 9, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the District of Connecticut ruled that fiduciary breach limitations set by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)...

September 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An Atlanta-based insurance third party administrator (TPA) has received a subpoena from New York state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer as part of Spitzer's...

September 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Increased financial compliance regulations have driven up finance costs 18% over the past 24 months, according to a new research report.

October 9, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A group of illegal immigrants has filed suit against Wendy's International Inc. claiming that they were fired after the firm discovered that it...

October 9, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - UK pension regulators on Monday publicly expressed concern about pension plan sponsors approaching them to see how their companies can sever their ties...

October 9, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A group of illegal immigrants has filed suit against Wendy's International Inc. claiming that they were fired after the firm discovered that it...

October 9, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - "People issues" have replaced workload as the number one cause of workplace stress for the first time in ComPsych's StressPulse survey.

October 9, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The latest Hewitt Associates data shows that while health care coverage cost hikes projected for 2007 are lower than this year, they will...

August 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - David Harker, former Chairman of the Ohio Police and Fire Pension Board, has pled guilty to charges relating to receiving gifts from vendors.

August 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New pension reporting mandated by a UK accounting rule may now show that many pension funds are deeply in the red, but that...

August 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Indiana's Public Employees' Retirement Fund (PERF) has a plan to invest more than $500 million into venture capital, real estate, and other private-equity...