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June 22, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - SAM Sustainable Asset Management (SAM), a Zurich-based investment firm, has launched a new mutual fund for U.S. investors, the SAM Sustainable Global Active...

June 22, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The controversy over Long Island, New York, private lawyers being cut off from collecting some or all of their public pensions continues as...

June 22, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Bull Path Capital Management today announced the conversion of one of its long-short hedge funds into a long-short equity mutual fund -- the...

June 22, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - When asked what level of detail they would like to receive in information about retirement plan fees, only 31% of workers surveyed said...

June 22, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Financial Engines has introduced the Retirement Checkup, a phone consultation with a Financial Engines adviser focused on helping near-retirees update their plans for...

June 22, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The city of Bozeman, Montana, has ceased its practice of requesting that candidates selected for city positions under a provisional job offer provide...

June 22, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - InvestorForce, a Wayne, Pennsylvania, software provider, has announced an update of its InvestorForce Insight service it says will allow consultants to provide institutional...

June 19, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - American managers are more stressed about the current recession than their global counterparts, but they are among the most optimistic about their future,...

June 19, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The chairmen of the three committees with jurisdiction over health policy in the U.S. House of Representatives - all Democrats - have unveiled...

June 19, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois has ruled that Motorola Inc. and fiduciaries of its 401(k) plan did not...

June 19, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) today announced it has assumed responsibility for the pension plan of more than 22,000 workers and retirees...

June 19, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employees would appreciate a lighter schedule during summer months, a new survey suggests.

June 19, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The city of Bozeman, Montana's background check policy states that to be considered for a job, applicants must provide log-in information and passwords...

June 19, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has recently added updated tools to its Employee Plan Team Audit (EPTA) Web site.

June 19, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In response to the potential for an increase in the number of abandoned or orphaned plans resulting from the down economy, PenChecks has...

June 19, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Once two 401(k) plan administrators learned a dead participant's common-law spouse was legally validating her marital status, the plans should have postponed distribution...

June 19, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Chicagoland plan sponsors, fiduciaries, and providers can bone up on their fiduciary responsibilities next week.

June 19, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The equity markets have been pretty scary at times in recent months, but that apparently hasn't prompted institutional money managers to flee the...

June 19, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has sued a Molalla, Oregon, nursery owner over allegations it permitted "severe sexual harassment" of women...

June 19, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Payden & Rygel has hired John Villegas for the firm's Retirement Services Group.