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January 14, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - ADVISORport and PFPC have announced the launch of Nationwide Financial's The BEST of AMERICA Advisory Services program on their fee-based service platform.

January 14, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Lincoln Retirement unveiled an enhanced version of its Income4Life variable annuity called i4LIFE Advantage.

January 30, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Football fans and stock market pundits alike have a simple explanation for the stock market rebound in 2003 - the Tampa Bay Buccaneer's...

January 30, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com)—New York Life Investment Management LLC (NYLIM) Retirement Plan Services partnered with Secure Data in Motion, dba Sigaba, a secure messaging services provider, to provide...

January 30, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has provided guidance to plan sponsors for charging a former employee's account for plan expenses, without necessarily charging...

January 30, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has provided guidance to plan sponsors on how to request a waiver of minimum funding standards of Internal...

January 30, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Retirement plans that separately account for rollover contributions do not have to treat distributions of those amounts to the restrictions on permissible timing.

January 30, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors that are having difficulty determining if their retirement plans are subjected to the top-heavy rules of Internal Revenue Code (IRC) Section...

January 30, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - If the C-suite wants to know how certain acquisitions or dispositions are going to affect nondiscriminatory contributions, plan sponsors now have a resource...

January 30, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Soon after asking for permission to slash certain post-retirement benefits, Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp. has hammered out an amended labor contract that...

January 30, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Maine state employees and teachers who retired early and then went back on the job may have to choose between keeping their new...

January 30, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Milwaukee Country Ethics Board is moving forward with plans to prosecute eight past and present pension officials for dishonestly accepting perks from...

January 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The United States Senate's approval of Pension Stability Act with modifications to the deficit rate contribution (DRC) provisions also contains language to alert...

January 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - President Bush's plans allowing younger workers to invest a portion of their Social Security taxes in the stock market has an AARP leader...

January 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's private pension insurer announced Thursday that it was re-jiggling its investment portfolio to a greater fixed-income position to better manage its...

January 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Investors now have an online area in which they can discuss corporate governance issues about publicly held companies.

January 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The exchange-traded class of shares of 14 Vanguard index funds will kick off trading on the American Stock Exchange on Friday January 30,...

January 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The number of jobless Americans lining up for first-time unemployment benefits dipped slightly last week, the government reported.

January 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - During the last quarter of 2003, the Employment Cost Index (ECI) rose only 0.7%, the smallest increase of the year.

January 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's mutual funds made it three months in a row of asset increases, as combined assets were up by $178.9 billion (2.5%)...