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April 20, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal regulators on Wednesday announced nearly $4 million in fines against the former leading institutional sales trader at Knight Securities and barred him...

August 4, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The majority of respondents (72%) to Deloitte Consulting LLP's 2006 Global Rewards Pension Survey, when asked about provisions of the Pension Protection Act...

August 4, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Western District of Virginia ruled that an employer breached its fiduciary duties by not providing a Summary...

August 4, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An advisory from the Department of Labor said that unrelated brokers of a 401(k) plan's self-directed brokerage account can collect 12b-1 fees for...

August 4, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The number of jobs added by US employers in July fell below expectations of analysts surveyed by Reuters, and the unemployment rate jumped...

April 20, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) announced Wednesday that it had placed American International Group (AIG) Inc. and four other companies to...

August 4, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that, though a pension plan violated its duties under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act...

April 20, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As expected, the board of the California Public Employee's Retirement System (CalPERS) has approved a plan to reduce contribution volatility in the massive...

August 3, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the District of Minnesota has ruled in favor of U.S. Bancorp for denying severance benefits to an employee...

August 3, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Monster Employment Index, which measures online job demand in the US, fell six points to 165 in July.

August 3, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Medica is now offering a travel benefit that allows members to receive in-network health care benefits outside of the plan's service area, with...

August 3, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - At a time when corporate America's feet are being held to the coals and shareholders are taking public stands to rein in governance...

August 3, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new white paper from SEI suggests plan sponsors considering freezing or closing their defined benefit plans must perform more comprehensive plan design...

August 3, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a recent survey from OfficeTeam, 43% of respondents said telecommuting is most beneficial for staff-level employees, compared with 18% who said telecommuting...

August 3, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Independent Consultants Cooperative (ICC), a consortium of investment consulting firms, said the median master trust in its universe fell by 1%, and...

March 8, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Shareholders in four pension plans have filed suit against Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP), alleging the Board of Directors violated its own policy by approving...

August 3, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mutual fund assets worldwide increased 7.5% to $19.11 trillion at the end of the first quarter of 2006, up from $17.77 trillion the...

August 3, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service has issued final regulations regarding Section 410 coverage requirements for 401(k) plans under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act...

August 3, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Developed world equity markets gained 0.32% in July, but remain down 3.39% for the latest three-month period, according to Standard & Poor's review,...

February 8, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Free Enterprise Fund has challenged the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) with a lawsuit claiming the accounting board created under the act is...