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June 20, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Northern Trust Corporation has launched its Defined Contribution Tracker, which serves as a barometer for the participant asset flows of defined contribution (DC)...

June 20, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers are self-insuring medical benefits more now than before passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), a survey finds.

June 20, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A new analysis shows 38.3 million working-age households (45%) do not have any retirement account assets.

June 20, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Benefit Consultants Group (BCG) launched its 401(k) X-Ray service for retirement plan sponsors and advisers.

June 20, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Invesco PowerShares Capital Management LLC has launched PowerShares Global Short Term High Yield Bond Portfolio (PGHY).

June 20, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Women (27%) are less engaged in retirement planning than men (37%), a white paper from Lincoln Financial Group indicates.

June 20, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – State exchanges and federally facilitated exchanges (FFE) for 34 states that will not operate a health care exchange must be established by October...

June 20, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – California will pay less for public employee pensions in the 2013 to 2014 fiscal year based on new contribution rates approved by the...

June 19, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Investment Company Institute (ICI) expressed opposition to a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposal to reform money market funds.

June 19, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Many individuals with employer-sponsored health insurance are delaying or avoiding getting health care due to cost.

June 19, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal court ruled Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan (SERP) participants’ state law claims are not preempted by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act...

June 19, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) is aligning its leadership with client challenges in both active and passive strategies.

June 19, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The city of New York has agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by police officers who were called to active duty in the...

June 19, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Consumer-directed health plans (CDHPs) were the only type of health insurance that grew in 2012, a new analysis finds.

June 19, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Nine organizations asked for more time to make comments about lifetime income illustrations for defined contribution (DC) plan participants.

June 19, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Guardian Life Insurance Company of America now permits benefits brokers and employers to request health plan changes online.

June 18, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Dietrich Pension Risk Transfer Index increased considerably from May’s value of 85.81 to settle at 88.92 as of June 1.

June 18, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Twenty-seven percent of bosses surveyed by CareerBuilder have a current direct report that they would like to see leave their company.

June 18, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Generation X employees struggle the most when it comes to saving for retirement, a survey by PwC indicates.

June 18, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - After reaching a low during the month of April (0.024%), defined contribution plan participants’ daily transfer volumes increased significantly in May, according to...