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January 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors are likely to lower expectations for both discount rates and pension plan returns, according to a new survey.

April 1, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Some 1.3 million US private-sector workers' injuries and illnesses kept them off the job beyond the day they got hurt or fell ill...

April 1, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - MFS Retirement Services has announced enhancements to its retirement business to help its advisor financial intermediaries and make it easier for participants understand...

April 1, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has ruled that only "substantial" compliance with the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) is needed in order to...

April 1, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US tax-exempt assets in cross-border mandates have topped $1 trillion for the first time ever.

January 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Garden State employers can rely on subjective criteria to fire a worker unless the employee's contract specifies otherwise, the New Jersey Supreme Court...

January 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Evergreen Investments has agreed to acquire three mutual funds from Undiscovered Managers LLC.

January 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Workers reporting wrongdoing to Congress may now be afforded greater protection, after the US Department of Labor (DoL) changed its interpretation of a...

April 1, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Voluntary Benefits Solutions (VBS) has launched a health care program for hourly workers.

April 1, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Retired NBA players are hoping that Commissioner David Stern and union Executive Director Billy Hunter up their monthly pensions out of good-will.

April 1, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -Investors in asset allocation funds in 2004 stayed longer in such funds and therefore did better, according to a new report.

January 4, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A large pension fund is continuing its efforts to win new rights for shareholders to nominate board members with a request to federal...

January 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - HR managers looking for faster and less expensive ways to service employees might want to consider a new product from an Orlando technology...

January 16, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mutual fund companies looking to do business with California, North Carolina or New York will have to adhere to strict new principles of...

March 31, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Hewitt Associates and Report on Business Magazine have issued a call for participants in the seventh annual Best Employers in Canada survey.

March 31, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More than one-third (36%) of employees in a new survey reported that a coworkers had been distracted, less productive, or missed work because...

March 31, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Health care organizations are continuing to struggle to attract and retain critical-skill workers, according to a survey by Watson Wyatt.

March 31, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In an interesting twist in the same-sex marriage debate, a Connecticut couple filing for an annulment of their civil marriage have been told...

March 31, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has blocked a federal agency from implementing a controversial rule allowing employers to cut back or eliminate retiree health benefits...

March 30, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal jury has ruled that New Orleans's first black district attorney was wrong in firing 53 white workers upon his arrival and...