Latest News

February 28, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mutual of Omaha Retirement Plans Division appointed Seth Friedman as 401(k) national sales director.

February 28, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – New research shows a majority of small-business owners are concerned about retirement, however one-third...

February 28, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - StanCorp Equities, Inc. appointed Jennifer Giampaolo as a pension consultant for its Orange County Retirement Plans Office. 

February 28, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - For a variety of reasons, the health care industry has not moved as quickly as others to manage employee health care costs and...

February 27, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) released its 2010 pension insurance data tables.

February 27, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Isaiah Davis  joined Cammack LaRhette Consulting as director of business development for its New England office, based in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

February 27, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - State Street Corp. said on Monday the U.S. attorney in Manhattan and the New York attorney general are investigating its foreign exchange trades.

February 27, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In contrast to the majority of months in 2011, the net direction of 401(k) participants’ transfers in January 2012 returned to equities.

February 27, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Mercer appointed Sharon Cunninghis as U.S. health & benefits region leader.  

February 27, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Total 529 college savings plan assets were an estimated $144.4 billion in Q4 2011, according to data from Financial Research Corporation (FRC), a...

February 27, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Nearly half (44%) of U.S. workers are worried about reductions in their retirement benefits over the next two years, according to a survey...

February 27, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Net cash contributions to long-term mutual funds around the world came in at around $200 billion for 2011, down from almost $1 trillion...

February 27, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More than half (56%) of America's middle-income Boomers admit to knowing little or almost nothing about the Medicare program.

February 27, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Moira Duffy joined USI Consulting Group as vice president, retirement services, based in Chicago, Illinois.  

February 24, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – California State Controller John Chiang released an actuarial report showing the 30-year cost of providing health and dental benefits for state retirees is...

February 24, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Louisiana State Employees Retirement System (LASERS) voted to oppose nearly all the measures contained in Governor Bobby Jindal's proposed overhaul of the...

February 24, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – An appellate court in New Jersey found a public worker did not intend to mislead the state and does not need to repay...

February 24, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Over 60 Screen Actors Guild (SAG) members filed a lawsuit asking the court for...

February 24, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - BlackRock, Inc.‘s iShares Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) business launched two new dividend-focused equity funds designed to access the emerging markets and Asia/Pacific developed...

February 24, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Japan's financial regulator halted operations of a Tokyo money-management company after finding it allegedly lost billions of dollars in client money.