Latest News

September 8, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The funding status of public pension plans may not be as bad as widely reported, depending on how you look at the data.

August 20, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Newport, Rhode Island investment firm diverted more than $1 million in market returns due to clients into firm accounts instead, federal regulators...

August 8, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Rockwell Collins Inc. will no longer be accruing benefits for salary increases and service rendered in its pension plans after the fiscal year...

August 20, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new planning tool by Watson Wyatt could help workers get a more realistic picture of their retirement financial needs.

August 8, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Freddie Mac is taking it on the chin from the Ohio River delegation with recent lawsuit announcements by Ohio and West Virginia entities...

August 20, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Saying the full-service third-party recordkeeping business simply hasn't been profitable enough to justify staying in it, Trustar Retirement Services is pulling out of...

August 8, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Vanguard Group has reallocated assets among several managers of its $2.6-billion Vanguard Equity Income Fund and taken away the share of the...

August 20, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The new accounting rule FRS17 has led to at least 90% of UK companies facing pension deficits - far worse than first imagined,...

August 8, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Washington State Supreme Court justices may not have been able to find legal authority in state law for forcing health plans to cover...

August 20, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Three US banks have emerged as bidders for Deutsche Bank's custody business, put out on the block earlier this year as part of...

August 8, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A group of advocates for blind consumers have filed a lawsuit against E*Trade Group seeking to force its entire automatic teller machine (ATM)...

August 20, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Financial service providers will have to adopt new conflict of interest principles if they want to do business with the nation's largest public...

August 8, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Performing usual professional functions that do not include a controlling interest in a plan governed by ERISA does not subject an attorney to...

August 20, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Japanese employee pension funds had 4.5 trillion yen in unfunded pension liabilities for the year ending March 31, according to a new study.

August 8, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An online travel services retailer has agreed to a $1.1-million out-of-court settlement of a federal court sexual harassment lawsuit alleging that the firm's...

August 8, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors and other institutional investment managers might be interested in a new outsourcing product from the Northern Trust Company, which the company...

August 8, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nearly half (49%) of New York's job seekers say they have changed their course of action when it comes to looking for employment.

August 8, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Washington state homebuilders association has submitted signatures in an effort to repeal the state's sweeping workplace-ergonomics rules.

August 8, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has brought a sexual harassment suit against the operators of a South Carolina Wendy's restaurant.

August 8, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors with mental health programs in place aimed at containing costs should be aware - these programs may actually increase an employer's...