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August 3, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Last week's Congressional machinations brought to mind Otto van Bismarck's comment that "Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them...

By any measure, the recent convictions of former Enron executives Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling were a win for justice.

Last week, PBS' Frontline ran a program titled "Can You Afford To Retire?" For those of us in this business, the title was almost painfully rhetorical. After all,...

April 27, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Today is Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day (and yes, that's "our", not "yours"). This week I asked folks what they...

April 17, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A couple of Saturdays ago, I was working on a column, when I got a call from my sister. My father, who had...

March 28, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Years ago, I got burned out on conferences. Too often, the seats were packed with sellers rather than buyers - and, too often,...

March 9, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - I may come to regret it - but we have decided to pass on the sixth season of the HBO "family" crime drama,...

March 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Benjamin Franklin once observed that in this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes - and, certainly at this time of year,...

February 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - This week, Congress may well turn its attention to pension reform (or it may not; there are other issues looming, not the least...

November 9, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - On Friday, the Government Accountability Office, or GAO, issued a report reflecting its analysis of cash balance plans and their impact on worker...

By now you have perhaps read - or at least been told about - the recent cover story in Time magazine titled "The Broken Promise." The promise -...

September 8, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The pages of this publication frequently chronicle the impending onslaught of change and its implications for plan sponsors, and we also hope we...

I've always had a certain ambivalence about what are generally termed "Hallmark holidays." You know the ones I'm talking about - the ones that seem crafted for the...

December 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - This is the time of year one really wants to write about things like peace, joy, hope, and the brighter prospects for the...

November 7, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Over the past two months, trading improprieties have been alleged at one mutual fund company after another, and there is little sign that...

It's hard for plan sponsors to catch a break in the headlines these days.

This week we asked readers for their "read" on what this year's events might mean for the future, specifically which of several key events did they think would...

December 24, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - "Anonymous" sources at the Portland Chapter of the Western Pension and Benefits Conference have contributed a little holiday "spirit" for all of us...

In the wake of a new Hewitt study on automatic enrollments, we asked readers to "play" consultant (even those of you who ARE consultants).

February 27, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - There may be another Enron pension surprise coming - but taxpayers shouldn't reach for their wallets just yet, despite early reports. The online...