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November 5, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The recent tumult at Merrill Lynch - and the resulting drop on the financial giant's stock price - have already drawn the scrutiny...

November 5, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Even though your weekend was an hour longer than "normal", it may not feel like it.

November 5, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Three-quarters of employees in a recent poll said it doesn't make any difference to the quality of their work whether their supervisor is...

May 23, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - UnitedHealth Group has been hit with another shareholder lawsuit - this time filed by two pension funds - over allegations of stock option...

November 5, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With a bill mandating that the state stop investing in companies supporting the Sudanese government now law, Massachusetts' state pension fund will divest...

November 5, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Verizon Communications Inc. Board of Directors has adopted a rule calling for an annual shareholder advisory vote on its executive compensation policies.

November 5, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in California has dismissed - with prejudice - a class action civil suit against a Corona, California energy drink company...

November 5, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Jacksonville (Florida) Police and Fire Pension Fund trustees have terminated their contract with Merrill Lynch Consulting Services in the wake of a federal...

November 3, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The United Auto Workers union said early Saturday that it reached a tentative four-year contract agreement with Ford Motor Co. - a deal...

March 23, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) has issued a white paper addressing the reason state and local governments are held to different accounting...

March 23, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fidelity Investments has reported that a laptop computer containing personal information on 196,000 Hewlett-Packard Co. retirement plan participants has been stolen.

March 23, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The recent move by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to require broad-brush executive compensation disclosures has drawn wide support in a...

February 23, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US states' budgetary stress is rising due to increasing pension fund contribution demands at a time when costs are also escalating in other...

February 23, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - HealthSouth Corp. has agreed to a $445 million settlement of pending shareholder litigation.

November 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Just hours after the chairman of Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) called for the resignations of five independent board members - he got them.

November 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) -State Street Corp. has been hit with two more lawsuits over its now controversial stewardship of fixed income funds marketed as following conservative trading...

November 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Another pension fund has filed suit against State Street for "investing purportedly conservative, risk-averse bond funds in high risk mortgage backed securities and...

November 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut has rejected a plan participant's motion to certify her fiduciary breach lawsuit as a...

November 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Information and technology company Fiserv, Inc. plans to sell nearly all of its health businesses to United Health Group for $775 million in...

February 23, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New research shows that the smoking ban to be implemented in the UK will increase pension deficits of its largest companies by billions...