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November 23, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The IRS has extended the deadline when plans must be in compliance with their reforming amendments relating to providing payments of retroactive benefits...

November 23, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new research paper concludes that most Americans retiring today with both Social Security and pension income are in good fiscal shape, with...

November 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Vanguard Group has filed a registration statement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to create an Institutional Share class of...

November 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Web-based asset allocation tool offered to 401k, 403b, and 457 plan participants, RetirementSmarts.com, has signed an agreement to have New Frontier Advisors...

November 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Select Sector SPDRs, which trade on the American Stock Exchange, have been added as investment options in Invest n Retire's 401(k) platform and...

November 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Great-West Healthcare has introduced two consultative tools for benefits brokers and employers to use in choosing the most appropriate health benefits structure.

November 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - AIG Employee Benefits and Workplace Solutions has announced a relationship with Capital Benefits Group, Inc. to offer PPO dental products.

November 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As part of a settlement of a reverse-discrimination lawsuit, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has agreed to make the plaintiff a manager and...

November 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nearly a quarter (23%) of the e-mails sitting in the work mail boxes of respondents to a recent survey were non-work related.

November 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - According to the Society for Human Resource Management's (SHRM) 2005 Disaster Preparedness Survey, 85% of organizations have formal disaster preparedness plans in place.

November 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In its report, "The Total View: Retirement Plan Trends and Forecast", The Principal Financial Group found that employee participation rates in their employers...

November 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Forty-four percent of executives polled said employees are less productive the week before a major holiday.

November 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Virginia has cleared an accidental death benefit plan administrator of wrongdoing in ruling that the death of plan participant...

November 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) announced it has assumed responsibility for two pension plans of Falcon Products, Inc. and its subsidiary Shelby...

November 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Boston firm is offering institutional investors and money managers an information source about the extent of a particular company's involvement in Sudan.

November 21, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Investment Technology Group, Inc. (ITG) has announced that it has added fixed income capabilities to its transition management services.

November 21, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Center for Retirement Research (CRR) at Boston College has released 'Get Rich Slow', an interactive game to motivate women to become actively...

November 21, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Jefferson Pilot Financial, a provider of universal and variable universal life insurance, fixed annuities and employee benefits, has introduced a package of voluntary...

November 21, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An federal judge in Indiana has tossed aside arguments by two General Motors employees that the company was barred from recouping disability payments...

November 21, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The soaring costs of health care prompted employers to rethink their plan offerings resulting in a third year of slowing health care costs.