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October 10, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America has released an insurance product for employers that self-fund their health plans.

October 9, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Morgan Stanley Investment Management unveiled an institutional share class to improve transparency and lower fees for defined contribution (DC) plans and other institutional...

October 9, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – How to conduct an effective and cost-efficient payroll audit is the focus of the newly published “Payroll Auditing: A Guide for Multiemployer Plans, Second...

October 9, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The estimated savings new Medicare beneficiaries will need to cover the costs of health care in retirement continues to drop as the growth of...

October 9, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In an effort to rein in health care costs and encourage employees to take greater responsibility for their health, a growing number of...

October 9, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An increasing number of plan sponsors are pointing to participant outcomes, not participation rates, as the best measure of success for an employer-sponsored...

October 9, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A participant in the U.S. Bancorp Pension Plan has filed a class action lawsuit against plan fiduciaries because of their policy and practices with...

October 9, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Eight in 10 (82%) preretiree higher education institution faculty members (ages 55 and older) are confident they will have enough money to live comfortably...

October 9, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The funded status of the 100 largest U.S. corporate defined benefit pension plans improved by $32 billion during September, as measured by the...

October 8, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Great-West Financial has rolled out Premier and Custom Key 403(b) offerings for small-market nonprofits.

October 8, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Plan sponsors will definitely want to avoid an excise tax on high-cost health plans, and participants will need to start saving in health savings...

October 8, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) will provide live video webcasting of the Board’s in-person public meetings.

October 8, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A study indicates employers may be offsetting their matching contributions to manage cost increases from automatic enrollment into defined contribution (DC) retirement plans.

October 8, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Wealth and asset management firm Northern Trust has added two positions within its defined contribution (DC) solutions practice dedicated to expanding participant communications...

October 8, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to weigh in on a case that could have far-reaching implications for litigation against Employee Retirement Income...

October 7, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Few employers are making plan sponsorship or work force changes in anticipation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), according to...

October 7, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Hub International Ltd. announced that its employee benefits practice has expanded its private exchange nationally to provide more options for both employers and...

October 7, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal appellate court found two employment agreements were not benefit plans covered by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA).

October 7, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Financial reporting and benchmarking firm FRA PlanTools released an iPad application to help plan advisers and sponsors access and compare retirement plan costs...

October 7, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – New fee transparency regulations, along with a number of widely publicized fee-related litigation cases, helped drive costs related to retirement investment account administration...