Voices

January 16, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - It might be a coincidence, but with more than half of the programs honored in PLAN SPONSOR's Top 100 DC Plans providing for...

May 15, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Maybe it's the approach of warmer weather, perhaps the passage of looming deadlines - or maybe I'm just hungry. This week we asked...

August 14, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A recent Merrill Lynch survey suggested that many participants felt that the past three years hadn't really dented their portfolios. This week, we...

November 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) Several weeks ago, when news of the mutual fund scandals was still emerging, we asked readers what action they would take with their plans...

April 1, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Today is, of course, April Fool's Day, and this week we asked readers whether they were more likely to be the prankster or...

April 25, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - There's a lot of 'buzz' about the newly enhanced 529 college savings plans - and a growing interest on the part of plan...

February 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Valentine's Day is tomorrow - a time when lovers (and florists) are traditionally all agog, even in the workplace.

October 24, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - One of the more overlooked aspects of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 (EGTRRA) was a new Saver's Credit-an...

June 12, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Seems like no matter where you turn these days, everyone is talking about Martha Stewart - this week we asked our readers what...

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...

May 23, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - One of the key elements of most of the no-more-Enrons inspired legislation still circulating in Washington is a requirement to provide participants with...

August 22, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Apparently nobody remembers the 1994 debacle because it now looks like we might actually have a baseball strike - and who knows? No...

April 10, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Cutting the company match is back (still?) in the headlines again, but with jobs at stake and cost pressures looming, it seems like...

February 21, 2002 - For some, the Enron meltdown proves once and for all the inherent fallacy of privatizing Social Security. Others see the current 'investment' concentration of...

January 9, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Critics say it isn't enough - it will take too long - and it goes to the wrong people (e.g. the so-called "rich")....

June 20, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Some see it as a logical extension of a series of missteps - Waste Management, Sunbeam, Enron. Others as a travesty of justice....

December 19, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Here we are smack dab in the heart of the holiday season - so this week we asked readers: "Are you exchanging gifts...

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

September 19, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - This week we asked readers "As an employee, given a choice between having a pension plan OR having a 401(k) plan - which...

August 7, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In the past week two potentially significant court decisions on cash balance plans were handed down by federal courts in Illinois - IBM...