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February 2, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Just as a continuing stream of US firms are freezing their defined benefit pension in favor of a defined contribution program, a similar...

February 2, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) has put out two amendments to class exemptions allowing plans to conduct transactions...

February 14, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - It may cost a great deal up front to comply with the dictates of Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), but companies that go through the process...

February 26, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Most retirees are trying to stay afloat financially by relying on Social Security and pension payments without dipping into their retirement savings, a...

February 2, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A jury has awarded a former Proctor & Gamble employee more than $2.6 million in damages in a wrongful termination suit.

February 14, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Board of Administration for the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) has decided to approve a plan to shed light on corporate...

February 2, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The federal government's first offering of high deductible health plans (HDHP) with a health savings account (HSA) may not have equally attracted federal...

February 14, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -American International Group (AIG), the world's largest insurer by market value Monday disclosed that state and federal regulators have subpoenaed firm records regarding products...

February 26, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com)—Orlando, Florida—Even if 12b-1 fees are eliminated, the money will still be paid out to brokers and recordkeepers, although payments might take place under a...

February 26, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - FleetBoston Financial Corp has placed eight portfolio managers and executives on leave in the wake of market timing allegations at the firm's Columbia...

February 26, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Thirteen percent of companies polled are using captive insurance to cut down on employee benefits cost and 60% are considering captive involvement within...

February 2, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mellon Financial Corporation has announced that Robert Capone has joined Mellon Asset Management as Head of Defined Contribution (DC).

February 26, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With his office still neck deep in the continuing mutual fund trading scandal, New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer is apparently now...

February 2, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The five former officials of the San Diego City Employees' Retirement System (SDCERS) and the system's former general counsel, who were indicted last...

February 14, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A joint venture - which includes a firm that is funded by a large number of public and corporate pension plans, endowment and...

February 2, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Western District of Louisiana has ruled that a woman who worked for a company for 11 years,...

February 2, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The latest Issues in Brief from the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College shows that Form 5500 Data from the Department of...

February 2, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Texas has cleared Reliant Energy of charges that it breached its fiduciary duties under the Employee Retirement Income Security...

February 2, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Security Benefit has unveiled a new single-source retirement savings program for plan sponsors that incorporates automatic fiduciary oversight through built-in governance and management...

January 26, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Massachusetts Financial Services Co. (MFS) will apparently escape being formally charged with illegal late trading because securities regulators could not amass enough evidence,...