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July 31, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Add the State Retirement Agency of Maryland to the growing list of state pension system that are seeing something they haven't for a...

July 31, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Rudolph Giuliani, the charismatic former mayor of New York City, is rolling out his newest weapon of terrorist mass destruction - investment dollars.

June 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Congressional watchdog agency has recommended that the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) better document its criminal referrals in securities cases and...

June 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The biggest potential obstacle in the path of large plan sponsors is how to produce their target returns in a low-return market though...

July 6, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A San Antonio, Texas jury found that Humana Inc. was partially responsible for a former patient's death and must pay part of the...

July 6, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Thirty nine percent of Americans report not making any monthly contributions toward retirement savings, while another 9% are "unsure" they are making any,...

July 6, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Preliminary half-year data from Standard & Poor's shows that US stock funds fell 0.3%, international equity funds advanced by 0.57%, high-quality corporate bond...

July 6, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Aetna has announced that mid-sized and larger clients who buy its high-deductible health plans with Health Savings Accounts (HSA) can pay first dollar...

July 6, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Twenty seven million employees (27.5%) reported working on a flexible schedule in 2004, down from 29 million (28.6%) in 2001, according to the...

July 6, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Canadian employers are embracing flexible benefit programs in increasing numbers, new Hewitt Associates research has shown.

July 6, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Bush administration has taken aim on a sweeping pension reform bill wending its way through Congress, charging that it doesn't sufficiently deal...

July 6, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A US House Democrat has introduced legislation forbidding discrimination against federal employees on the basis of sexual orientation.

June 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The total amount of pension underfunding among ailing US plans covered by the private-sector pension insurer hit a record $357 billion in 2004...

July 6, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has rejected a $16.5 million settlement in the company stock case between Electronic Data Systems Corp. (EDS) and current and...

July 5, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Senator Rick Santorum (R-Pennsylvania) has introduced The Telework Tax Incentive (bill S. 1292) to provide a tax credit up to $500 for...

July 5, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Chicago commodities futures and options trader won a partial victory with a ruling by a federal appeals court that he was entitled...

May 19, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The long-simmering dispute between state of Washington regulators and Morgan Stanley over the firm's investment advice to Microsoft Corp. employees has spilled into...

July 5, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Five educators have filed age discrimination complaints with the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission and the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), claiming that...

July 4, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two former employees of The Coca-Cola Co. have filed a lawsuit which claims that administrators of the company's 401(k) plan "breached their fiduciary...

May 19, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - State and federal prosecutors may bring the ongoing mutual fund trading scandal even more squarely to Charles Schwab's doorstep.