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January 14, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Even as Marsh & McLennan continues to negotiate a settlement of insurance bid-rigging allegations, New York state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer apparently also...

February 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Washington, DC-based Human Rights Campaign Foundation has released a new online ranking of the employers most supportive of gay, lesbian, bisexual and...

February 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Tuscon, Arizona-based dailyVest has unveiled a new software product designed to help display raw investor data on a Web site.

February 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The White House is providing more details on plans to expand health savings accounts (HSAs) President Bush alluded to in his Tuesday State...

February 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the District of South Dakota has ruled that a health care plan administrator cannot limit the special enrollment...

January 26, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Social Security's perceived shortcomings were enough for more than eight in 10 people responding to a survey to jump into their employer-sponsored retirement...

January 26, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Those companies with the highest representation of women in senior management positions had a 35.1% higher return on equity and 34% higher total...

January 26, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The stepped-up scrutiny of 401(k) plans resulting from recent financial scandals has apparently kicked plan sponsors into high gear, a survey found.

February 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Ameriprise Retirement Services' Financial Education and Planning Services group has announced the availability of a series of seminars and educational tools on the...

February 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Russell Investment Group has formed a new product and service group - Russell Retirement Services.

January 26, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The International Employee Stock Options Coalition (IESOC) is asking the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) to offer a field test of various stock...

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,...

February 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Three years after the introduction of the consumer driven health plan (CDHP) model, the health plans are still mostly offered by large employers.

February 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new report released by The Commonwealth Fund found that, in 2002, 15% of US families (18 million households) had high out-of-pocket health-care...

February 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois has given three former employees the green light to continue their lawsuit alleging...

January 14, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Eighteen former Enron directors earlier this month agreed to a $168-million settlement of shareholder litigation over the firm's stunning collapse including having to...

February 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A government official said Wednesday that the German government will raise the country's retirement age in steps to 67 from 65 by 2029...

February 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nissan North America has frozen its defined benefit pension plan to new hires as of January 1 and is offering instead a 401(k)...

February 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - According to market lore, January has two special attributes. It tends to be a good month. And, good or bad, it tends to...

February 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's insurer of private-sector pension plans has assumed responsibility for a pension plan covering nearly 2,000 former workers for a bankrupt Atlanta-based...