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October 30, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The health insurance exchanges created as a result of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (or ACA) could be especially beneficial to...

October 30, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The right metrics and valuation strategy can help defined contribution (DC) plan investment committees cut through the complexity of evaluating target-date fund (TDF)...

October 30, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A new study by John Hancock found that employees’ biggest retirement-related concern is the financial risk of rising health care costs.

October 30, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Social Security Administration (SSA) has announced a 1.5% benefit increase for 2014.

October 30, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A new survey by Aon Hewitt revealed that employers are boosting efforts to help their employees save for retirement.

October 30, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR) – A series of animated “whiteboards,” released by New York Life Retirement Plan Services, aims to illustrate prominent 401(k) planning concepts for employer-sponsored retirement...

October 30, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – While attendees of a U.S. House subcommittee hearing agreed that the U.S. multiemployer pension system needs to be improved, they had differing opinions...

October 30, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR) – BNP Paribas Investment Partners Trust Company added a share class to offer employer-sponsored retirement plans access to its U.S. Treasury Inflation Protected Securities...

October 29, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – U.S. workers hold almost half of their investable assets in low- or no-return cash strategies, potentially jeopardizing retirement readiness in an effort to...

October 29, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – What to do about missing or unresponsive participants and beneficiaries and uncashed benefit payment checks is not very clear.

October 29, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The two-week government shutdown in October delayed the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) work on the fiduciary redefinition, according to Assistant Secretary of...

October 29, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Lord, Abbett & Co. LLC, an investment management firm, has named five new partners.

October 29, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Almost one-quarter (24%) of Canadian employers said work-related stress and sedentary lifestyles are the top health risks affecting their employees, according to a...

October 29, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – John Hancock Investments has hired three new managing directors for its Institutional team.

October 29, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A new analysis found that Idaho is the best state to retire in, pointing to many conditions that are friendly to retirees.

October 28, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Health benefits costs will continue to increase despite the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), and in some cases, because of it,...

October 28, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – BNY Mellon has added the Liquidity Aggregator to its risk and collateral management-related services.

October 28, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The American Society of Pension Professionals & Actuaries (ASPPA) recently made several recommendations to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on static mortality tables...

October 28, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Fidelity Institutional has launched a streamlined solution for accessing alternative investments.

October 28, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Internet users in the United States are not as worried about government agencies having access to suspects’ home computers or e-mail accounts as...