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March 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Sixty seven percent of employees surveyed admit to taking place in office betting pools, up from 61% last year, according to a survey...

January 27, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In an effort to get a potential 401(k) class-action lawsuit against it thrown out, bankrupt Mirant Corp. has argued that fund fiduciaries were...

March 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While increasing numbers of plan sponsors have reached out for lifestyle and lifecycle funds as well as ETFs as investment options, that doesn't...

January 27, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - By the count of four-to-one, defined contribution plan participants would prefer to convert all or some of plan assets into a stream of...

March 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors with plans at Minneapolis-based U.S. Bank Institutional Trust & Custody now have the option of adding a Roth 401(k) to their...

March 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fidelity Investments has unveiled enhancements to its Fidelity, Advisor and VIP Freedom Fund portfolios.

March 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nineteen percent of workers recently surveyed by CareerBuilder.com admitted they tell lies at the office at least once per week.

January 3, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mellon Financial Corporation has completed a corporate reorganization that involved a merger between its Dreyfus Mutual Fund unit and its Institutional Asset Management...

January 3, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged six former executives at Putnam Fiduciary Trust Company (PFTC) with defrauding a retirement plan...

January 27, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - 2003 wasn't kind to the accounting profession's biggest players.

March 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Efforts by Ford Motor Co. to slash its retiree health-care expenses got a boost Wednesday when a federal judge gave tentative approval to...

February 28, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Stock and bond funds experienced net inflows of $32 billion in January, according to data from the Financial Research Corporation (FRC).

February 28, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 2005/2006 MetLife Employee Benefits Trend Study found that, while 34% of all employers (46% of employers with more than 25,000 employees) are...

February 28, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Principal Financial Group has introduced a new wellness program - Principal HealthyEssentials.

February 28, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has issued an injunction that blocks implementation of the US Department of Defense's (DoD) new human resource and pay system.

February 27, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Orlando, Florida - This afternoon, at the 401(k) SUMMIT in Orlando, Florida, Nevin Adams, Editor-in-Chief of PLANSPONSOR magazine named Dorann Cafaro as the...

February 28, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A report from the International Longevity Center-USA (ILC-USA) points to widespread age discrimination in American society.

February 28, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mercer Human Resource Consulting has launched a global initiative to provide companies with planning information and advice addressing the challenges of a potential...

February 28, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Flexible Plan Investments Ltd. has announced the availability of three new Evolution Managed Funds on the Nationwide Retirement Platform.

February 28, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - IW Financial has announced that it has added information on corporate involvement in Sudan to its IWF Workstation platform.