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July 20, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Barclays Global Investors (BGI) has decided to list its 81 iShares ETF products on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and the Archipelago...

July 20, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Wachovia Retirement Services has upgraded and enhanced its Wystar recordkeeping platform, according to a news release.

July 20, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Global banking firm HSBC USA has been slapped with a federal court lawsuit alleging that it violated labor laws by not properly paying...

July 20, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A jury awarded $20 million to 85 year old Dr. Robert Johnson who claimed he was forced to retire as chief physician and...

July 20, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Department of Labor (DoL) ruled that the employer of a city police officer could not require reimbursement of wages paid during...

July 20, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has determined that a post-9/11 rule that employees take a test in English to require a security...

July 20, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new study has found that companies that consistently realize lower costs through outsourcing invest in adequate vendor management, but also spend significantly...

July 20, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Base salary levels will remain steady while employers will turn to bonuses and other awards to compensate their employees, according to a survey...

July 20, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Congressional lawmakers are moving to make permanent the sweetening of permitted K plan contribution and catch-up provisions contained in a 2001 law.

July 20, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The AARP's International Retirement Security Survey found optimism about retirement and confidence in government retirement programs is low.

July 20, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Towers Perrin is expanding its German operations with the acquisition of a German pension consultant.

July 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pennsylvania Governor Edward Rendell has signed into law a bill mandating that elective deferrals to nonqualified deferred compensation (NQDC) plans are to be...

July 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A New York federal judge has taken the unusual step of naming a small group of individual investors as lead plaintiff in a...

July 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell has signed into law a bill that will allow commercial insurers to offer health savings accounts (HSAs) linked to...

July 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A lower court ruling was overturned for two former employees at the Valley State Prison for Women in Chowchilla, California who complained they...

July 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Tucked away in Tuesday's announcement of planned massive layoffs at HP was word that the computer maker was also changing its retirement savings...

July 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Illinois has expanded its I-SaveRx program to allow prescription drug imports from Australia and New Zealand.

July 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employer-sponsored retirement plans could prove unusually effective in getting more African Americans into the world of investing, a new survey found.

July 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A prominent Democratic Congressman has proposed that federal employees be allowed to obtain health insurance, retirement and other benefits for their domestic partners.

July 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Andrew Appel has been tapped as new chief executive officer of Aon Consulting Worldwide, Aon's human capital and management consulting division, the company...