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June 14, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Wall Street Journal reports that internal emails from financial services firm ING Group show that it allowed some of its clients to...

February 5, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - State Street Corporation announced Monday that it has agreed to buy Investors Financial Services Corporation - also a Boston-based financial services provider -...

February 5, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) has fined four Fidelity broker-dealers a combined $3.75 million for faltering on some of their recordkeeping...

February 5, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Clients of The Chubb Group of Insurance Companies with employment practices liability (EPL) coverage can now get 10% off their deductible (up to...

February 5, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Sears Canada Inc. announced Monday that it is freezing its defined benefit plan in 2008 for current workers in favor of a defined...

February 5, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More than half of employees say employer-sponsored wellness programs encourage them to work harder and 55% say the programs persuade them to stay...

February 5, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - DWS Scudder has unveiled a host of multimedia enhancements to its Web site that is designed to support plan sponsors and financial advisers...

February 5, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Hartford, Connecticut-based insurance company is changing its retirement savings program to include a re-engineered defined benefit pension and a beefed-up 401(k) plan.

February 5, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - SurePayroll has come out with an online program to advise small business owners on human resources tasks including compliance, forms and recommendations.

May 26, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Missouri State Treasurer Sarah Steelman has launched a salvo at Missouri's state public retirement fund, demanding that the fund stop investing in companies...

May 26, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A law firm has concluded in a report released Wednesday that San Diego's pension board probably violated California's conflict of interest law in...

April 26, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two investment firms have paid an Ohio state pension plan $124,000 for illegally "wining and dining" pension fund trustees.

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April 26, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New York state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and Insurance Superintendent Howard Mills announced that the Empire State's Insurance Department would hire an auditor...

March 14, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In spite of the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) recent proposal requiring better disclosure of executive pay programs, most US companies are not...

March 14, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Marsh & McLennan Cos. has settled an investigation by California into its commission practices.

March 14, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new law taking effect April 1 will raise the deposit insurance coverage on retirement accounts held at banks or savings institutions from...

February 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Although US hiring managers brought on a fewer-than-anticipated 111,000 new workers in January, the job market in the fourth quarter of 2006 was...

February 14, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While the decision to outsource the management of pension assets is often associated with trimming costs, plan sponsors at a recent panel discussion...

February 14, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - NASD announced today that it has fined Diversified Investors Securities Corp. of Purchase, New York, $1.3 million for facilitating impermissible market timing by...