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And many health plan sponsors "have been happy" with the management services provided by the big companies.

The new information has broken down some resistance among plan sponsors.

"These are the people who no matter what a plan sponsor does, thinks it usually isn't enough," he said.

"There are a lot of major pension plan sponsors who would very much like to see the bill pass."

Is the plan available directly from the state or plan sponsor?

"What a plan sponsor doesn't want to do is overwhelm employees," he said.

These distributions generally must start even though you have not retired and are still working for the plan sponsor.

"Jumping to make a move now may not be in the best interests of the investor or the plan sponsor."

"To date, plan sponsors aren't interested in offering 5,000 choices to their participants."

"Plan sponsors are as concerned or even more concerned now than they were," he said.

"But if you just make cash-balance plans illegal, what are the plan sponsors going to do?"

The plan sponsor is the corporation employing the member and paying the member's T4 income.

Our bill does not authorize any cause of action against an employer, plan sponsor or employee.

It has a separate order-processing service available to retirement plan sponsors.

But as plan sponsors they have fiduciary duties to protect those participants.

As with defined benefit plans, investment risk is largely borne by the plan sponsor.

Many plan sponsors emerge from bankruptcy without terminating their plans.

In our bill there is no right of recovery by a person against an employer, plan sponsor or employee for damages.

However, legislation was recently passed that cleared the way for plan sponsors to adopt cash balance plans.

Conflicts can lead plan sponsors to fail in their fiduciary duties.

However the plan sponsor must amend the plan to make those options available.

They argue that plan sponsors who are dissatisfied should replace the poor organizations with better performers.

If the document does not name an administrator, the plan sponsor is the administrator.

"This is a global problem, a systemwide problem, for all plan sponsors."

In August 2005, federal officials lowered the estimate for this year to $32, based on the proposals submitted by drug plan sponsors.