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March 13, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois has awarded a statutory penalty of $20 per day for 511 days to...

March 13, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The time required to integrate an executive into a new position is longer than the traditional 90-day period, according to new research from...

March 13, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal court jury in North Florida has returned a $1.34 million sexual harassment and retaliation verdict against a local security agency.

March 13, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nationwide Financial has introduced Quarterly Plan Checkup, a free electronic report that helps plan sponsors manage their fiduciary risk.

March 13, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - SunGard has introduced Relius Document Management Services (DMS) for companies with over 500 retirement plan documents.

March 13, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Demand for temporary workers in the US for the second quarter of 2006 is expected to exceed slightly more than 4% over the...

December 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Lipper reports that 2,830 funds reduced their management fees in 2004, compared with 622 that did so in 2003.

December 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Citing new research about the connection between skyrocketing CEO pay and company performance, a group of pension funds has formally requested that federal...

December 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's accounting rulemakers have given tentative approval to a plan requiring many US public companies cutting back pensions, retiree health care or...

December 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Montana's House of Representatives approved 51-49 a measure that will use $125 million of the state's money to help decrease the public retirement...

December 27, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - British life insurance giant Britannic Assurance has moved two-thirds of its pension money from equities to bonds, a move that might be followed...

December 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The rampant money troubles at General Motors have come home to roost for the giant automaker's K plan for salaried workers with a...

November 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A study from the Investors Action Foundation (IAF) shows that if a windfall profits tax on oil companies is approved, retirement accounts could...

November 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - ULLICO Inc. has reached a settlement with its former president, chairman, and chief executive of charges he breached his fiduciary duties to the...

March 10, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Thousands of elderly in the UK could be asked to pay back around £130 million of pension benefits received.

March 10, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee has allowed a health plan participant to proceed with his claim that he...

March 10, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The good news is that state and county workers in Hawaii can join a new pension program that could add hundreds of dollars...

March 10, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Legislative fervor sweeping many parts of the country over the extent to which large companies are allegedly shirking their duties to provide sufficient...

March 10, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Total non-farm payroll employment grew by 243,000 in February, according to data from the Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

March 10, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A year ago, Dr. James Levine, a Mayo Clinic obesity researcher in Rochester, Minnesota, rigged his desk so he could stand and walk...