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July 29, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has jailed and fined the former chief financial officer of a White Plains, New York-based marketing firm on charges he...

July 29, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Senate Banking Committee on Thursday backed the nomination of US Representative Christopher Cox as Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman, clearing...

July 29, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Health insurance premiums in plans sold as part of a Health Savings Account (HSA) program dropped an average of $29 per month ($348...

July 29, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Total compensation costs remained flat in the March to June period over the prior quarter, new government data shows.

July 28, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has announced it will assume responsibility for the pension plan of Amcast Industrial Corporation of Dayton, Ohio.

July 28, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - One provision in the pension reform recently approved by the US Senate Finance Committee comes from an Oregon Democrat who proposed barring employers...

July 28, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - SunGard announced the release of a new product, OmniManager, a browser-based alternative to OmniStation, the current desktop application of its OmniPlus recordkeeping system.

July 28, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - SunGard announced the release of a new product, OmniManager, a browser-based alternative to OmniStation, the current desktop application of its OmniPlus recordkeeping system.

July 28, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Appeals judges at the US 5th Circuit Court of Appeals have agreed to rehear as a group a case involving allegations of a...

July 28, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle vetoed provisions included in a budget measure that would have given tax breaks to health savings accounts (HSAs) linked...

July 28, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Alaska Governor Frank Murkowski signed a bill that would switch the Alaska's Public Employees Retirement System and Teachers Retirement System to 401(k) type...

July 28, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In an effort to better help Hispanic-owned employers comply with federal laws and regulations, the US Department of Labor (DoL) has launched a...

July 28, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While Americans are apparently agreeable to becoming more active in their own health care, they need more education on the issue to make...

July 27, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Prudential Retirement has announced a "Women & Investing for Retirement" program and an "eZ Series" of communications tools, expanding its education and communication...

July 27, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal credit union employees recently got some encouraging news regarding their deferred compensation programs.

July 27, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In an effort to help small employers deal with the ever-present problem of health-care coverage costs, the US House on Tuesday approved a...

July 27, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has ruled that a Texas educator still owes his ex-wife alimony from his 403(b) retirement account despite his having...

July 27, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Republican co-sponsors of the Growing Real Ownership for Workers Act of 2005 (GROW) say they will push the bill to the Senate when...

July 27, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new IRS Revenue Ruling says a Profit Sharing Plan violates vesting requirements and possibly other Internal Revenue Code sections if it imposes...

July 27, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - First Mutual Corp. agreed to a settlement of a lawsuit claiming a male former employee was sexually harassed by a female coworker.