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June 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has asked to intervene in a suit by participants in the pension plan formerly sponsored by Tom's...

June 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Keller Rohrback L.L.P. class-action law firm announced Thursday that it is investigating the investment activities of Northern Trust Company (NTC) and Northern...

June 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mercer announced it is expanding its health and benefits administration outsourcing platform to offer a standardized full outsourcing solution for clients with 5,000...

June 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new survey finds that high net-worth (HNW) investors are ready to roll over assets from former employer-sponsored retirement accounts to providers who...

June 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - ING Investment Management Americas has named Michael Forstl as vice president of business development.

June 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Wilmington Trust has named Charles Russella as president of Wilmington Trust Retirement and Institutional Services Company (WTRIS).

November 30, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pacific Life Insurance Company has added a suite of variable annuities as a funding option for its Pacific Life Individual(k) Program.

June 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - BlackRock, Inc. says it has executed a purchase agreement to acquire Barclays Global Investors (BGI), including its iShares exchange-traded fund (ETF) platform.

June 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a House Education and Labor Subcommittee hearing on recently proposed paid leave bills, China Miner Gorman, chief operating officer of the Society...

June 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's private-sector pension insurer has taken over a plan covering more than 830 current and former employees of Amsterdam Memorial Hospital.

June 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is considering a new rule to tax a quarter of employees' use of employer-provided cell phones as a...

June 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new research report suggests that many workers at companies suspending their 401(k) match are nonetheless covered by a traditional pension plan.

June 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The biggest threat to a company's cyber security may come from the people charged with protecting an organization's online data - the IT...

June 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Morgan Stanley announced today that Henry McVey, who previously worked at Morgan Stanley for more than a decade, is returning to the firm.

June 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Individuals with employment-based health benefits are confident that employers will continue to offer such benefits, according to the 2009 Health Confidence Survey from...

June 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Revzon Consulting Group has announced the addition of Michelle Brooks to its staff as the Manager of Participant Recordkeeping Services.

June 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Standard Insurance Company, a subsidiary of StanCorp Financial Group, Inc. has announced it has been selected by a consortium of 15 school districts...

June 10, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The results of Fidelity Investments' second Couples Retirement Study, first fielded in 2007, show that despite two years of unprecedented economic and financial...

June 10, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Newly released data from the Investment Company Institute (ICI) indicates that 65% of total U.S. retirement assets during 2008 were held in employer-sponsored...

June 10, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Senate Democrats have unveiled a U.S. health care reform plan that calls for sweeping insurance market reforms and prohibits insurers from denying coverage...