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October 18, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Prudential Insurance Company of America has signed an agreement with Verizon Communications Inc. to transfer approximately $7.5 billion of the Verizon...

October 17, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Amid market volatility, the changing role of defined contribution (DC) retirement plans, a shrinking work force and longer life expectancy, plan sponsors must...

October 17, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Diane Braunstein, an associate commissioner of the Social Security Administration, is joining the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) to create a Department...

October 17, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – MassMutual Retirement Services has planned several events to coincide with National Save for Retirement Week.

October 17, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Most investors ages 21 to 50 remain focused on saving for retirement, according to an online survey...

October 17, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Russell Investments recently redesigned its Russell LifePoints Institutional Target Date Fund (TDF) suite to offer both active...

October 17, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Despite being younger than others, on average, workers at tax-exempt health care organizations have saved more for...

October 17, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Wealth Management Systems Inc. (WMSI) has launched its latest web application, Rollover Central.

October 17, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Risk parity is an alternative form of portfolio management that allocates capital based on the underlying risk of asset classes, rather than anticipated...

October 17, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Pension Rights Center (PRC) has published on its website a list of companies that have offered...

October 17, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – SunGard is expanding its managed services capabilities to help retirement plan administrators and recordkeepers reduce costs, comply...

October 16, 2012 (PLANSPONSORS.com) – A comparison found that using the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS’s) required minimum distributions (RMD) as a retirement savings withdrawal strategy does almost as...

October 16, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Forward Management LLC has formed the Asymmetry global health care team.

October 16, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Natixis Global Asset Management (NGAM) has reached an agreement to acquire McDonnell Investment Management LLC.

October 16, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Aon Hewitt 401(k) Index pointed to continued participant uncertainty in September as daily transfer volumes remained significantly low compared with historical levels.

October 16, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – In the past year, 30% of workers have called in sick when not actually ill, and many have given employers creative excuses, a...

October 16, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – While more than 50% of plan sponsors offer target-date funds (TDFs) in defined contribution (DC) plans, only half of them are using TDFs...

October 16, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – AllianceBernstein has found that whether plan participants consider themselves “active” or “accidental” investors, they give target-date funds (TDFs) praise.

October 16, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Stephen Davis has been appointed national sales manager of Guardian Retirement Solutions.

October 16, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Invesco PowerShares Capital Management LLC announced the anticipated listing of the PowerShares S&P 500 High Dividend Portfolio...