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May 1, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Alliance Benefit Group (ABG) asked the Department of Labor to clarify certain aspects of the participant fee disclosure regulations that go into effect...

May 1, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Consumers and businesses are expected to receive $1.3 billion in rebates from health insurers who spent more on administrative expenses and profits than...

May 1, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Blacks and Hispanics are more likely than whites and Asians to take loans and...

May 1, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Approximately one-third of outperformance from skill should go to hedge fund managers in the form of fees, with the rest going to the...

May 1, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fidelity Investments reported the average 401(k) balance in 401(k) plans it administers rose to $74,600 at the end of the first quarter, an...

May 1, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An increasing number of employees view the solution to having adequate retirement savings as working longer.

May 1, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - U.S. state and local public-employee retirement systems had $2.7 trillion in total cash and investment holdings in 2010. 
 

May 1, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Google, Inc. was sued by a Brockton, Massachusetts, pension fund that claims the company’s planned stock split would unfairly create nonvoting shares. 
 

May 1, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Forty-one percent of chief financial officers (CFOs) say lack of communication between staff and...

May 1, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – New York City’s pension funds announced plans to vote their 4.7 million Wal-Mart company shares against five directors standing for re-election to the...

May 1, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In an effort to streamline administration of its 403(b) plans, the University of Washington is reducing the number of providers and selected Fidelity...

April 30, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Among benefits most directly related to economic security, employers with 50 or more employees are most likely (96%) to offer 401(k) or 403(b)...

April 30, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Ninety-nine percent of employers with 50 or more employees offer personal health insurance coverage for full-time employees.

April 30, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Connecticut legislators introduced bills that would mandate a study about whether state government should offer a retirement plan to employees without an employer-sponsored...

April 30, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Beacon Consulting Group has released "The Evolving Pension Operating Model."

April 30, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Recordkeeper and custodial service provider Retirement Revolution named Gary Crane business development officer for the northeast.

April 30, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Castle Rock Investment Company is hosting a working lunch to discuss new fee disclosure rules.

April 27, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pentegra Retirement Services introduced its first application for mobile devices.

April 27, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Ford Motor Company announced it will offer approximately 90,000 eligible U.S. salaried retirees and...

April 27, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued the 2013 inflation adjusted deduction limitations for annual contributions made to a health savings account (HSA) under...