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December 3, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Research indicates that an annual average of 21,000 retirement plans were terminated during 2012 and 2011.

December 3, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – ADP has released an expansion of payroll capabilities for its ADP Vantage HCM service.

December 3, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Analysis from the Center for Retirement Research (CRR) shows strong equity returns and modest housing price increases since 2010 have done little to...

December 3, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A CareerBuilder survey finds that a person’s major in college may not correspond to the job they get after graduation.

December 3, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Pension plans for S&P 1500 companies continued their improvement in funded status during 2013.

December 3, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) updated the expected retirement age table used to compute benefit values for distressed pension plans facing involuntary...

December 3, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Investment service provider BNY Mellon released a liquidity administration service as part of its fund-of-hedge-funds (FoHF) offering.

December 3, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The funded status of the typical U.S. corporate pension plan in November improved 2.1 percentage points to 93.9%.

December 2, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Accounting for the source of funded ratio increases within defined benefit (DB) plans is critical for preventing imprudent fixed-income purchases, new research shows.

December 2, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Many employers are still on the fence when it comes to radical changes to their employee health benefits strategy.

December 2, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Legislators in Illinois are proposing changes to help with the funding of the state’s badly ailing pension system.

December 2, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is extending the enrollment deadline for the federally facilitated Small Business Health Options Program...

December 2, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Two United States senators are calling on the U.S. Treasury to address nondiscrimination challenges facing employers that enact soft freezes on qualified defined...

December 2, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The cost of purchasing pension annuities from insurers fell to 108.3% of liabilities during October, down from 108.9% to reach the smallest margin...

December 2, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – This year there is a 7.7% increase in PNC Wealth Management’s 2013 Christmas Price Index (CPI).

November 27, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The U.S. Supreme Court will hear two cases relating to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (or ACA), focusing on the issue...

November 27, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A new study reveals that many same-sex couples are revisiting retirement planning decisions in light of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in the...

November 27, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Horizons ETFs Management (USA) LLC launched the Horizons S&P Financial Select Sector Covered Call ETF.

November 26, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Testimony from the executive director of the National Conference on Public Employee Retirement Systems (NCPERS) says that a bill addressing public pension issues...

November 26, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Department of Labor (DOL) has filed a lawsuit against a provider of mental health and drug treatment services, seeking to restore employee...