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June 28, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - UBS is teaming with Metavante Corporation to offer Metavante's OnePersonPlus defined benefit plan.

June 25, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - State of Ohio pension officials will have new ethics and accountability standards to follow, under a reform bill penned by Governor Bob Taft.

June 25, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has ruled that a woman afflicted with multiple sclerosis (MS) was entitled to long-term disability (LTD) benefits despite a...

June 25, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge turned back efforts by a retiree who was a participant in a defined contribution retirement plan to force the plan...

June 25, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com)—A couple's estrangement is not a "legal separation" or qualifying event under COBRA, and therefore a company cannot provide an election notice upon such a...

June 25, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Officials at the U.S. Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) have released proposed models for trust/custodial agreements for Health Savings Accounts...

June 25, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More than four in 10 companies plan second-half 2004 hiring, but that doesn't mean they're throwing the workplace doors completely open.

June 25, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers are increasingly using funds they might have dedicated to payroll to cover their soaring health-care benefits costs.

June 24, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nobody likes pointless meetings these days, but conduct a gathering that can't seem to stay on topic and you will really drive your...

June 24, 2004-Half (51%) of human resources managers have not reviewed their benefit plans in order to determine whether or not the term spouse, as defined in their...

June 24, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - U.S. workers aren't exactly scrambling over each other for the chance to put money into a Lifetime Savings Account (LSA), a survey found.

June 24, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com)-Women and men have equal aspirations to reach the corner office, and women with children living with them are just as likely to aspire to...

June 24, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - May's emerging spring wasn't all that kind to mutual funds, with stock and bond fund offerings suffering an $11.2 billion setback.

June 24, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Kansas federal judge has ruled that a lawsuit filed by the family of a man who died after a June 2001 motorcycle...

June 24, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com)—Quakers' refusal to comply with a levy on the earnings of a Quaker employee and "war tax protestor," makes the Quakers directly liable for all...

June 24, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com)—PensionOnline, Inc. introduced development toolkits to supply retirement service providers and TPAs who develop retirement applications with proven technology foundations that companies can customize to...

June 24, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com)—Ceridian announced the introduction of its Health Risk Assessment (HRA) tool in Spanish, directing it towards the Hispanic population.

June 24, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As retirement planning experts continue to bemoan the need for Americans to save more, almost half of women in a recent survey said...

June 24, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com)-Executives acknowledge they make mistakes, and most commonly (20% of the time), the mistakes result from a lack of communication, according to a recent Accountemps...

June 24, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - What makes an HR unit a shining star and a standout from its peers is that it can do much more with much...