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April 4, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - March returns for funds in the federal employees' Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) were more in line with their usual performance, according to govexec.com.

April 3, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A MetLife study of retirement aged workers reveals retirement is no longer defined by a specific date, but rather a desired state of...

April 3, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio has determined that a profit sharing plan's trustees unreasonably allocated losses to a...

April 3, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - WorkforceLogic and ABE Services have announced the merger of the two companies that provide workforce management solutions.

April 3, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Boston-based HighRoads has launched version 2006 of its Benefits Lifecycle Management (BLM) system, the company announced in a news release.

March 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The long-rumored sale of Mellon Financial Corporation's HR consulting and outsourcing business was announced Wednesday in a $445-million deal with Dallas-based Affiliated Computer...

March 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - NASD has fined Concord, New Hampshire-based trader/broker Jefferson Pilot Variable Corporation $325,000 for failing to stop market-timers in sub-accounts of its Ensemble series...

April 3, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has added to its Web site an inventory of Appeals Board decisions.

March 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A panel of the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) has endorsed a plan to reduce volatility in government contributions to the massive...

April 3, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Directors at semiconductor companies enjoyed a whopping 45% cash compensation hike in 2005, a new study found.

March 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A majority of institutional investors plan to add to their hedge fund holdings over the next three years as they continue searching for...

February 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The NASD has charged American Funds Distributors, Inc. (AFD) with violating NASD's Anti-Reciprocal Rule by directing approximately $100 million in brokerage commissions to...

February 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Board of Administration at the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) has voted 9-3 to oppose legislation calling for a constitutional amendment...

February 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In-the-money value of unexercised stock options for CEOs more than doubled in 2004, Watson Wyatt reported.

February 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Wachovia Securities and the NASD have opened investigations into one of the brokerage's Westlake Village, California offices over possible stock trading abuses.

January 28, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A United States Senate panel has touched off an examination into mutual fund fees and possible action to mandate changes in fee structures...

January 28, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The long-rumored $225 million settlement of improper-trading charges against mutual-fund giant Massachusetts Financial Services (MFS) has apparently been pushed back, according to a...

January 28, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) is moving to assume responsibility for the pension of 6,100 workers and retirees of bankrupt Cone...

January 4, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Marshall & Ilsley Corp. (M&I), a banking and financial services company, filed suit against Marsh & McLennan Cos. Inc. in federal court in...

January 4, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit over how it audited two collapsed mutual funds.