Tag: 403b

The California Institute of Technology has chosen TIAA-CREF to be the single administrative services provider for the Caltech Retirement Program, beginning January 1.

Almost three-fourths of polled 403(b) plan sponsors said they did not change their employer match during the 2008 to 2009 plan year.

Standard Retirement Services, a subsidiary of StanCorp Financial Group, Inc., will begin offering its proprietary managed account service to 403(b) plans next month, the company announced.

ING’s U.S. Retirement Services has recently formed a new Business Development Team dedicated to serving employer-sponsored higher education retirement plans across the country, and identifying new growth opportunities...

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is reportedly working on a final revenue procedure for Section 403(b) prototype plans that takes into account comments received.

Plan sponsors (and “plan professionals,” including advisers) looking to bone up on the new Form 5500 will have another chance to do so online. 

Recently, Time magazine ran a story called “Why It's Time to Retire the 401(k).”

By taking a picture of TIAA-CREF’s advertisements, smartphone users can link up with an investment consultant.

VALIC has been chosen by the University of North Texas (UNT) and Texas Woman’s University (TWU) as a 403(b) plan provider.

An insurance agent who purchased a book of clients from a retiring co-worker is suing the firm with which he is associated for stealing some of that business.

With new 403(b) regulations effective 1/1/2009, sponsors of 403(b) plans are looking for help, creating a great opportunity for retirement plan advisers wanting to grow their business.

A Winona County (Minnesota) District Court judge has ruled against two unions that sued the Winona school district over the reduction of the number of vendors serving the...

VALIC has been retained by Anne Arundel County (Maryland) Public Schools (AACPS) and the Iowa Department of Administrative Services (DAS) as a 403(b) and 457(b) plan provider.

Great-West Retirement Services announced that Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) in Virginia has hired it as one of the school system’s three 403(b) plan providers, serving 6,000 employees.

Somewhere in the course of your professional life, you have no doubt heard (or used) the expression about what happens when you assume1.

A new report from The Principal suggests that actively sponsored non-profit plans, including 403(b) plans, are achieving the same level of success as their for-profit counterparts.

Midwest Capital Advisors (MCA) of Grand Rapids, Michigan, has been selected as the provider of 403(b) and 457 retirement plan investments by the Michigan Retirement Investment Consortium (MRIC).

The recent market tumult certainly took a toll on participant balances, but a an analysis by The Principal suggests that it might have been less than some feared.

Stanford University faculty and staff will soon be making new decisions about their retirement savings as changes to the school's 403(b) plan will take effect November 2.

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit alleging a New York state teachers group breached its fiduciary duty by paying “kickbacks” to ING Life Insurance and Annuity Co.