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June 18, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Health care costs for the nation's employers are expected to grow by another 9% next year, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers' Health Research Institute.

June 18, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Watson Wyatt survey found that a third (34%) of workers have increased their planned retirement age in the last 12 months.

June 18, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In Canada, costs for pharmaceuticals in 2009 have increased by 15.19%, dramatically reversing a four-year downward trend in prescription drug prices, according to...

June 18, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - U.S. Representative Earl Pomeroy waded into the health care reform debate with a proposed bill that he says supports health systems that reward...

June 18, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers won a major legal victory Thursday when a divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled workers now have to prove their age was the...

June 18, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a joint hearing on target-date funds before the Department of Labor (DoL) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), witnesses were in...

June 18, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - To be in line with the latest dress code for the city of Brooksville, Florida, municipal employees must use deodorant - and wear...

June 18, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - ExpertPlan, provider of defined contribution plan recordkeeping solutions, announced it has hired Steven Hart as Vice President, Sales and Business Development.

June 18, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Alabama State Personnel Board, citing a lack of financial transparency, canceled a contract with Nationwide Retirement Solutions, which provides a deferred compensation...

June 18, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - McGraw-Hill Cos. has been hit with a stock drop lawsuit alleging its shares were artificially inflated because subsidiary Standard & Poor's (S&P) used...

June 18, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Defined contribution participants under 30 have actually gained 24% in average account balances between the end of 2007 and April 30, 2009, but...

June 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Target-date funds' allocations among stock and bond subclasses were among the primary determinants of the funds' performance, new Vanguard Group research finds.

June 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) estimate that the major provisions of the Affordable Health Choices Act...

June 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A record number of pension funds, endowments and other financial institutions will swap out their asset managers in the last half of 2009,...

June 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - M Financial Group, a financial services design and distribution company with more than 120 member firms in 36 states, announced that Erben Associates,...

June 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - MacKay Shields LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of New York Life Investments, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the assets of Mariner Municipal...

June 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Vanguard Group has added a new interactive target-date glide path tool to its Web site to help participants better understand how the...

June 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While the current recession is putting additional pressure on human resources (HR) departments to lower program costs, companies don't expect that to mean...

June 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - There are signs that deep workforce, pay and benefit cuts are moderating as businesses budget for the remainder of 2009, according to Mercer's...

June 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has voted to revise its regulations to conform to changes made by the ADA Amendments Act...