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Benefits in the News > By Subject > Ret plans - design Now Viewing Recent Headlines View Excerpts and Recent Headlines Convenience, Choice, And Control Are Important Factors As Investments Become More Conservative [Guidance Overview] Reminders for Qualified Retirement Plans of Imminent PPA '06 Compliance Deadlines [Guidance Overview] Verizon Escapes $1.6 Billion Pension Liability for Drafting Error Banner Year for Federal Benefits: One Other Big Benefit May Be On the Way Employment-Based Retirement Plan Participation: Geographic Differences and Trends, 2008 [Guidance Overview] Defined Benefit Plan Funding Relief Bill Introduced; Implications for Plan Sponsors Why You Won't Be Able to Retire Second Circuit Limits Impact of Employer's Oral Misrepresentation of Benefits Plan Small Increases in Compensation Costs in September 2009 Service Requirements for Joining 401(k) Easing, Survey Shows Private Sector Jobs With the Best Retirement Benefits 5 Tips in Using Retirement Planning Tools [Guidance Overview] Be Careful With Severance Plans; ERISA Reporting and Disclosure Rules Can Apply [Guidance Overview] Federal Government Employees See Benefits Enhanced by Defense Authorization Act Comparing Individual Account Retirement Plans to Defined Benefit Retirement Plans: Neither is Risk-Free Solo 401(k) Offers Big Tax Savings For Self-Employed [Opinion] The 401(k): Don't Believe the Hype IRS Delays Retirement Age Rule for Public Pension Plans 401(k) Plans: Several Factors Can Diminish Retirement Savings, but Automatic Enrollment Shows Promise for Increasing Participation and Savings Defined Benefit 401(k)s Set to Make Debut [Guidance Overview] Chart of 2009 and 2010 Retirement Plan and Other Inflation‑Adjusted Benefits (PDF) How Do Pension Changes Affect Retirement Preparedness? The Trend to Defined Contribution Plans and the Vulnerability of Retirement Age Population to Stock Market Decline of 2008-2009 (PDF) Automatic Annuitization: New Behavioral Strategies for Expanding Lifetime Income in 401(k)s (PDF) [Guidance Overview] New IRS Guidance: Application to Retirement Plans (PDF) What Sponsors and Advisors Should Know About Retirement Plans Congress Will Consider Option for Federal Workers to Contribute Unused Leave Toward Retirement Account [Guidance Overview] IRS Regulations on Pension Funding and Benefit Restrictions (PDF) Re-Envisioning Retirement Security; A Conference .For Delphi Pensioners, the Union Label Helps Health Care Organizations Hire Advisers / Change Plan Designs, According to Survey [Guidance Overview] Supreme Court of Montana Upholds Verdict for Retirees [Guidance Overview] Plan Administrator Cannot Consider Motivation for Participants' Divorces When Determining Status of QDRO [Opinion] Divorce and Pensions: Continental Style Retirement Savings: Automatic Enrollment Shows Promise for Some Workers, but Proposals to Broaden Retirement Savings for Other Workers Could Face Challenges Same-Sex Couples Face Significant Disadvantages in Retirement, According to Study [Guidance Overview] COLAs for 2010 and Clarification of Operation of 401(k) Plans and Other Retirement Programs and Fringe Benefits New Roth Conversion Opportunities: Is Converting a Traditional IRA, 403(b) or 401(k) a Smart Move, Unwise or Much Ado About Nothing? [Guidance Overview] Elective Deferral Limits for 2010 for Employees of Non-Profit and Governmental Employers (PDF) In Search of a Fair Pension Formula: Realistic Income-Replacement Ratios in the 'New Normal' Economy A Call for Papers: Funding Strategies for Single Employer Defined Benefit Plans under PPA Benefits and Finance Departments Collaborate on 401(k)s How to Improve the Defined Contribution Retirement System Companies Plan to Reinstate 401(k) Matches Watson Finds Employer Spending on Retirement Benefits Declining Advisers Find Roth IRA Conversion Opportunity a Tough Sell [Opinion] Do We Still Need ERISA? Only If We Want to Shortchange Savers Research Project: Post-Retirement Adjustments in Defined Benefit Pensions [Guidance Overview] New Roth IRA Conversion Rules for 2010 [Opinion] The Roth IRA: A Savings Vehicle in Which All Earnings, Appreciation, and Interest Can Be Free of Income Tax Forever [Guidance Overview] IRS Guidance on Contribution of Unused Paid Time Off, Automatic Enrollment and Tax Notices (PDF) [Guidance Overview] 2010 Benefit Limits 2010 Qualified Plan Limits Pocket Card (PDF) Employers May Not Restore Benefits to Pre-Recession Levels [Guidance Overview] Retirement and Savings Initiatives' Review as of October 2009 (PDF) Employee Benefit Cost Pressures Plague CFOs, Survey Finds Frozen or Trimmed Benefits Budgets Spur Interest in Efficiency, Employee Health [Opinion] Comments Regarding Possible Issues Under Internal Revenue Code Section 414(x) on Combined Defined Benefit and Employee Cash or Deferred Arrangement Plans Redefining Defined Contribution Plans to Enhance Retirement Security In Louisiana, Information on Current Public Retirement Plan Differs [Opinion] Alternative to 401(k)s Is a Tax Trap in Disguise Important word about authorship: BenefitsLink® (BenefitsLink.com) provides this page for you, containing selected hypertext links to pages on the web that our editors think will be useful or interesting to you. 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