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June 6, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his administration discussed yesterday enacting a fifth-tier pension plan for municipal workers that would lessen their retirement benefits.

June 6, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Government Pension Fund-Global, which is managed by the central bank of Norway, said Tuesday that it broke its ties with two more companies...

June 6, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new retirement index found that 45% of working-age households are "at risk" of not being able to afford the same standard of...

June 6, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) said it was investigating FedEx Corp's requirement that employees pass a cognitive abilities test for promotion past...

June 6, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The McCamish Systems Retirement Services Group has released materials to help plan sponsors comply with the latest rules for 409A non-qualified deferred compensation...

June 6, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new survey on talent management finds that US companies are not making good use of their existing talent pools.

June 6, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - MetLife announced the availability of a Roth account option for its 403(b) plan customers.

June 30, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) is hinting at the possibility that the January 1, 2005 date for mandatory stock option expensing will...

June 6, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new study of hedge fund returns asserts that most investors can generate similar returns from a well diversified portfolio of stocks and...

June 6, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Colorado's governor has vetoed two health care bills in the past two months - one that would have required publishing the names of...

June 6, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - State Street Corporation has announced product and technology enhancements designed to improve accessibility to investment information and provide greater control of the overall...

June 6, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A white paper commissioned by The Bank of New York (BoNY) gives five operational considerations investors should give attention to before investing in...

June 5, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Bank of America Corp. (BoA) has announced a new program that will allow small businesses to manage their payrolls online.

June 5, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Bank of America Corp. (BoA) has announced a new program that will allow small businesses to manage their payrolls online.

June 5, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Thirty-eight percent of companies with 1,000 or more employees hire staff to read or analyze outbound e-mail while 44% of companies with more...

May 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Things continued to improve for corporate pension plans in 2004, as strong asset returns and a modest increase in contributions allowed programs to...

May 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The state of California - the scene of an increasingly bitter battle over whether to partly privatize state pensions - will end up...

June 5, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Professional services firm, Ernst & Young developed "Working Moms Network" (WMN) to support new, expectant and veteran mothers, giving them resources, networking and...

June 5, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Verizon Communications, Inc. has agreed to pay $48.9 million in credit to the pension accounts of thousands of former and current female employees...

June 5, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The EEOC filed separate discrimination lawsuits in 2004 against Wal-Mart and in 2005 against R.T.G. Furniture alleging that managers and supervisors at the...