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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...

January 26, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Last March, we did a NewsDash Survey Says on what our readers thought - and planned to do about - the Roth 401...

January 12, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - We've been reporting on various state initiatives, most recently one in Maryland that would require larger employers to spend a certain amount of...

January 5, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Roughly a year ago, we asked readers if they were "ready for automatic rollovers" - and nearly three-quarters said they had made (or...

March 25, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A little while back a reader asked, "Are plan sponsors jumping on the lifestyle fund parade or are they just waiting to see...

December 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Here in the Northeast, it's tempting to pose a question about the transit strike in NYC - but with luck, by the time...

December 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Balancing workloads around the holidays is always interesting, to say the least, and with Christmas Day falling on Sunday this year -- well,...

December 8, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As the holidays approach, many of us will be exchanging gifts with friends and co-workers. This week, we asked readers if they would...

December 2, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Every year about this time, I start looking back over the year just past - and try to highlight some of the major...

November 10, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Between last year's flu vaccine shortage and this year's bird flu pandemic angst, flu concerns have certainly gotten a lot of press. This...

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...

November 3, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - We've all sat through a boring meeting (or two) - some of us have no doubt led a boring meeting (or two).

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 -...

October 13, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Published reports earlier this week suggest that the President's Advisory Panel on Tax Reform is considering taxing workers on the value of their...

September 29, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - President Bush last week signed into law H.R. 3768, legislation that affords much greater flexibility for those impacted by Hurricane Katrina to access...

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...

August 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - We are just weeks away from "401(k) Day", (September 6 this year) a day set aside to educate employees about the importance of...

August 4, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Automatic enrollment - or at least talking about automatic enrollment - seems to be all the rage these days. Recent studies seem to...

July 28, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - House Democrats certainly gave plan sponsors (and service providers) a lot to digest yesterday - employer tax credits (at least for those not...