Retirement Investment Digest

The Department of Labor (DoL) issued the first regulation under the Pension Protection Act of 2006 (PPA) which deals with what is a permissible default fund.The PPA provides a safe harbor for plan fiduciaries investing participant assets in certain types of…

Ninety percent of all computers, cell phones and gadgets manufactured wind up dumped in landfill.
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Brainshark, the leader in on-demand communications that enable sales and marketing effectiveness, is leveraging its proven success to help financial services firms more effectively communicate to their channels …
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Caterpillar is being sued for allegedly allowing its employess to be overcharged on their 401K plans.
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China’s pension fund mayhem By Scott Zhou SHANGHAI - China has moved to centralize the management of pension funds after the Chinese Communist Party sacked Chen Liangyu as Shanghai party chief for his alleged …
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Lawsuits filed in four states accuse seven large companies of violating pension laws by allowing their employees to be overcharged by outside firms operating 401 retirement plans.
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Financial planner Nicole Middendorf has agreed to tune-up Christine Brown’s 401K, and you can use the tips Mittendorf gave Brown to tune-up your own retirement plans.Brown has had a rough ride lately, between a …
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Robert Westervelt and his wife and two children live in Westchester County New York.
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Number of single employer defined benefit plans covered by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation: 1985: 112,208 1995:   53,589 2005:   28,769…