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August 20, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Newport Group released the all-new plandestination.com.

August 20, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Bank of America’s investment businesses launched a program that supports clients’ needs to align investments with the environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues.

August 20, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Americans who hold the responsibility for making household health benefits decisions are uncertain about health savings accounts’ (HSAs) features.

August 20, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Buck Consultants has released “Buck on the go,” an iPad application that provides access to thought leadership materials on its website.

August 20, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - SunGard’s MyRetirement income calculator now gives defined contribution plan participants the ability to determine sustainable spending amounts throughout retirement.

August 20, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Defined contribution (DC) plans are becoming a stronger component of higher education institutions’ benefit offerings.

August 19, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – More attention needs to be paid to younger employees when it comes to investing for retirement, according to a new study from Hearts...

August 19, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Research from Morningstar suggests holding significant amounts of employer stock in 401(k) plans is bad for companies’ bottom lines.

August 19, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Visium Asset Management launched the Visium Event Driven Fund (VIDVX), the first mutual fund offering for the alternative asset management firm.

August 19, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Franklin Templeton Investments introduced four new funds within the company’s retirement target-date fund (TDF) lineup.

August 19, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Certain factors are impeding defined contribution (DC) retirement plan sponsors from adopting automatic features, a survey finds.

August 19, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Sean Taylor has joined Deutsche Asset and Wealth Management (DeAWM) as head of Emerging Market Equities.

August 19, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – An investment adviser has been ordered to restore plan losses, incentive fees and penalties for several employee benefit plans.

August 16, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Insurance provider Aflac has enhanced its website on health care reform with materials explaining the legislation in easy-to-understand language.

August 16, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – By institutionalizing their defined contribution (DC) plans, plan sponsors can give their participants better retirement outcomes, a paper contends.

August 16, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Unmarried individuals living alone, both women and men, are more likely to be reliant on Social Security to keep them out of poverty...

August 15, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Many employees had to retire before they planned, a survey found.

August 15, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Employees today are less likely to expect Social Security in retirement, according to findings from the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI).

August 15, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has asked a New York district court to replace the now-deceased trustee of a retirement plan.

August 15, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – ERISA attorney Philip J. Koehler has launched ERISA Fiduciary Administrators LLC (EFA).