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August 24, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - To alleviate current pension underfunding problems plaguing the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), one think-tank suggests scrapping the agency altogether, creating a private...

December 8, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The APEX Management Group, a Princeton, New Jersey health care actuarial consulting organization, announced a new assessment capability allowing employers to evaluate the...

August 24, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Leaders of the faltering San Diego pension system, claiming that their lawyers lead them into an unsound arrangement and should be held accountable,...

August 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Illinois Teachers' Retirement System (TRS) is considering a proposal to ban outside consulting deals like the one with Republican National Committee treasurer...

August 24, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Most US senior financial executives back a controversial plan by accounting rulemakers to force public companies to expense their stock option programs.

August 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Officials at a national compensation manager trade group are warning of a potential problem with a new interpretation by the Financial Accounting Standards...

December 8, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The administrator of a life insurance plan should not have refused to pay benefits to the father of a beneficiary who lied about...

December 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Ftwilliam.com has announced that its Web site has been updated to provide for automatic generation of Roth 401(k) amendments.

December 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While there is a continuing decline in holiday gifts and bonuses for Canadian workers, there has been an increase in pay-for-performance bonus plans.

December 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Paid holiday leave will be more generous in 2005, companywide parties will be more prevalent, and charitable giving and community activities will remain...

December 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The latest Executive Quiz from Korn/Ferry International found that executives believe their boss is the hardest person for whom to buy a holiday...

December 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation and Hewitt Associates finds that 79% of large firms that now provide retiree health benefits will...

December 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Companies that have existing global offshoring projects face a wide range of potential personnel problems both here and overseas, a new Conference Board...

December 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new Canadian survey has found that those polled see their retirement years as something very different than their parents did.

December 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Michigan has agreed with an accidental death benefit plan participant that the plan administrator acted unreasonably when it refused...

December 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a second ruling relating to a Qwest Communications lawsuit, Chief US District Judge Lewis Babcock decided a pension plan committee's investment guidelines...

July 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Britain's new Pension Protection Fund (PPF) appears poised to take over the pension plans of the collapsed MG Rover Group, according to reports.

July 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fidelity Investments' head of equity trading Scott DeSano has been reassigned as federal authorities continue investigating whether Fidelity traders improperly received lavish gifts...

July 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Florida bankruptcy judge has turned down a request by a group of retirees from Jacksonville-based supermarket chain Winn-Dixie to appoint a special...

December 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Almost half (46%) of responding S&P 100 companies admit that they fail to publicly release Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) data in full, according...