Voices

Tuesday night in his State of the Union address President Bush unveiled a new health-care proposal.

Last month it was my privilege to act as co-host and moderator for our first-ever Defined Benefit Summit.

A couple of weeks ago, we got a panicked call from daughter No. 1, who had, on her way home from work, gotten her first flat tire.

January 11, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - We're at one of those "interesting" periods of time - where we have new laws, but lack clarifying regulations; we have proposed -...

I've been in this business since before I graduated college (and that's now been a while) - but my first interaction with a financial adviser didn't happen until...

January 4, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) It's a brand new year, and one of the "traditions" associated with a new year is the making of New Year's Resolutions.

Deals like the one announced on Friday by The 401(k) Company, Nationwide, and Schwab are the kind of thing that gives plan sponsors heartburn.

December 21, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Once again, it was nip and tuck throughout the day - but this year's new winner actually led the whole day (albeit by...

A few years back—when my kids still believed in the reality of Santa Claus—we discovered an ingenious Web site that purported to offer a real-time assessment of their...

December 14, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As one can tell from the near-daily series of surveys we have reported on, 'tis the season for office holiday parties.

I was trolling around on the Internet last weekend, when I saw a story titled "The Downsides to Your 401(k)."

December 4, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - We got yet another call for 401(k) fee transparency last week.

November 30, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A few weeks back, I asked readers to opine on what impact they thought would result from the provisions of the Pension Protection...

Like many of you perhaps, I suddenly realized this past week that this week is Thanksgiving.

November 9, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Depending on your age, you may recall a song by Neil Sedaka called "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do - and what is...

If you have turned on a TV, walked by a radio, or driven down a residential street in the past month, you will, of course, be aware that...

October 19, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Perhaps the most memorable line from the Tom Cruise/Jack Nicolson movie "A Few Good Men" comes when Nicholson's Colonel Nathan Jessep snarls at...

October 12, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - No matter how good a firm you work for, sooner or later, someone, somewhere in the bureaucracy (and even small companies have bureaucracies)...

October 5, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As both a boss and a "subordinate," I was intrigued by the survey we reported on earlier this week about how often bosses...

On September 11, 2006, while the nation was focused on the fifth anniversary of the 09/11 terrorist attacks, a St. Louis law firm launched its own "attack" on...