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June 26, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Towers Perrin said it will reconsider how to provide employee benefit administrative services after selling its minority share of ExcellerateHRO, a benefits and...

June 26, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Ten percent of Americans polled recently who have retirement savings have added bank savings and CD's to their portfolios in the past six...

June 26, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Northern Trust faces yet another suit over its securities lending program as fiduciaries of Lockheed Martin Corp.'s defined contribution plans filed a lawsuit...

June 26, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has upheld a lower court decision supporting a Tulsa, Oklahoma, convenience store chain's decision to fire its real estate...

June 26, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York has agreed with Citigroup's decision not to continue COBRA medical coverage for...

June 26, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Legislation that would allow federal employees under the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) to get credit in their pension calculation for unused sick...

June 26, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected a district court's decision denying class certification and granting summary judgment to Flowserve Corporation...

June 25, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Cumberland County, North Carolina, government workers will not get employer contributions to their 401(k) retirement accounts starting July 1.

June 26, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Three former financial representatives of Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. have filed a $200 million lawsuit against the company for failing to pay...

June 26, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D - Montana) said in a statement that the Congressional Budget Office told his committee its health...

June 26, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A female broker has accused Bank of America (BofA) of gender bias by offering female former Merrill Lynch brokers lower retention payments than...

June 26, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a study of almost 2,000 of its own employees, tech giant Cisco said those who telecommute experienced a significant increase in work-life...

June 26, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Faced with pressure to take another look at its February 2009 decision in a widely watched 401(k) excessive fee case, a federal appellate...

June 26, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - At a time when employers changing their 401(k) match typically focus on their existing workforce, one Nebraska employer has trimmed its match for...

June 26, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Corporate Compensation Plans Inc. (CCP) has introduced a new program to protect employees' nonqualified deferred compensation plan benefits.

June 26, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Legislative leaders in New Mexico have agreed to spend up to $100,000 to help pay for an independent review of the state's investment...

June 26, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - DailyAccess Corporation, a Mobile, Alabama plan provider, has acquired the pension and group benefits business of FBD Consulting, Inc.

June 25, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - MSCI Inc. has launched the MSCI FX Hedge Indices, designed to help institutional investors decompose and measure the impact of hedging the currency...

June 25, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The independent/private foundations and community foundations participating in the 2009 Commonfund Benchmarks Study of Foundations reported an average total return of -26% (net...

June 25, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Retirement plan fiduciaries may have another acronym to worry about - FBAR - which is another name for the Report of Foreign Bank...