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April 18, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a lower court's decision about excessive fee claims against John Hancock.

April 18, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Treasury Department will issue guidance on the...

April 18, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - American households may experience a potential income drop of 28% in retirement.

April 18, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - Transamerica Retirement Services appointed Darren Zino as division vice president of the company’s mid-Atlantic region. 
 

April 17, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The House Committee on Ways and Means heard testimony on tax-favored retirement accounts on Tuesday. 
 

April 17, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Littler Mendelson, P.C. (Littler) added three attorneys to the firm’s expanding Employee Benefits and...

April 17, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan automation solutions play a key role in the plan design process, according to...

April 17, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - CPI Qualified Plan Consultants, Inc., added collective investment funds (CIFs) and exchange-traded funds (ETFs)...

April 17, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -  State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) launched SSgA Upromise 529 Plan. 
 

April 17, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Confidence in retirement savings and overall financial security both dropped one point, to 57% and 41%, respectively, according to Country Financial’s Security Index.

April 17, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Principal Financial Group updated its defined benefit termination program and released a white paper. 
 

April 17, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Retiring Baby Boomer business owners to the north are far more active in preparing for retirement compared with the average Canadian. 
 

April 17, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal signed legislation that will allow managers of the state employee’s...

April 17, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Washington state Legislature approved changes to health insurance benefits for K-12 school employees that are intended to improve transparency and help those...

April 17, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In June of 2011, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) revoked the tax-exempt status of approximately 275,000 organizations because these organizations failed to file...

April 16, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Sixty-nine percent of investors between the ages of 21 and 50 plan to work either part-time or full-time during their retirement years. 
 

April 16, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – U.S. employers have lost confidence that employees will have sufficient retirement assets when they leave the workplace. 
 

April 16, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – At the request of New York City’s public pension funds, Goldman Sachs and MetLife...

April 16, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com)—Morgan Keegan and Co. Inc. agreed to pay $633,715.46 to 10 pension plans covered by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). 
 

April 16, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – An analysis of trends and preferences indicates that tens of millions of Baby Boomers should look to Southern college towns for the ideal...