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March 16, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In what it described as "new standards for the mutual fund industry", MFS Investment Management today threw down a new gauntlet.

March 16, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Sprint Corp's shareholders will vote on a proposal at this year's annual shareholder meeting to further examine the company's offshoring efforts.

March 4, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Principal Financial Group has announced that it has received a subpoena from New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer.

March 16, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Bank of America and FleetBoston Financial yesterday agreed to pay $675 million to resolve charges that they helped favored clients trade mutual funds...

March 4, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Aon Corp. has agreed to pay $190 million to end a bid-rigging investigation brought on by three states.

March 16, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - State retirement systems continued to struggle with slumping asset values and larger liabilities, and had twice as big a shortfall in 2003 as...

March 16, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com)—California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS), the largest US public pension fund, will withhold votes for four Applied Materials Inc. directors up for election March...

March 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Lucent Technologies has reached a $600 million settlement in accounting fraud class action lawsuits.

February 4, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Even though the Social Security system is not in crisis, the top government watchdog told Congressional lawmakers that delaying reforms until 2042 would...

February 4, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Congressional Research Service has released a report on proposed individual accounts in Social Security, outlining possible benefits and drawbacks to the plan.

February 4, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Americans may have voiced confidence in the Social Security system in a survey, but that's not the whole story.

February 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The next time a globetrotting member of the city of Detroit pension board wants to travel out of state on official business, it...

February 4, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The head of San Diego's pension system has admitted that about 200 retirees received pension payments after they died.

February 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Washington state's legislature is taking on Initiative 790 (I-790) to correct a drastic increase in workers' contributions.

February 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Oregon state House has approved and sent to the state Senate a compromise bill governing how pension officials should swap 25-year-old mortality...

February 4, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - It often takes an average of four weeks to fill a staff accounting job and six weeks to bring on a finance manager,...

February 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) has turned to Madison Avenue in its latest attempts to get Tyco International back on American...

February 4, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Stock options continue to fall out of favor as a means of compensation, while full-value stock grants are coming into vogue, according to...

February 4, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Canadian and American regulators, as part of an insider trading probe, have charged three hedge fund managers with short-selling abuses.

February 4, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Like many a non-market related market barometer, the so-called Super Bowl indicator has fallen on hard times of late.