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November 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Financial risk management firm RiskMetrics Group announced Wednesday it will purchase Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS), a provider of proxy voting and corporate...

November 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Companies will likely consider investment approaches that better hedge their long-term pension liabilities as they react to the Pension Protection Act (PPA) and...

November 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer announced a settlement agreement with UnumProvident Corporation on charges of deceptive practices in broker and consultant pay.

November 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The gap between mutual fund ownership outside of retirement plans and inside of retirement plans narrowed in 2006, a recent survey by the...

November 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - North Carolina's pension fund will sell its holdings in nine companies that officials say provide monetary and military support to the Sudanese government,...

November 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Vanguard Group has announced it has filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission to include the Vanguard Structured Large-Cap...

November 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Principal Financial Group has an agreement with SafeGuard Health Plans, Inc, to offer dental health maintenance organization (DHMO) coverage to customers in...

November 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Aetna said Wednesday that its new Dental/Medical Integration Program will offer dental care, educational outreach and enhanced dental benefits to members who are...

January 11, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The state of Hawaii's effort to recoup $2.3 million in missing retirement contributions suffered a setback when the company accused of diverting assets...

October 31, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Wealth Management Systems Inc. (WMSI) has announced it has upgraded its automatic rollover program to facilitate rollovers from a Roth 401(k) account.

October 31, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Christopher Cox said Monday new charges on suspicious timing of stock option grants can be expected in...

October 31, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While a new PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) survey found a continuation of the decline in the use of stock option grants in equity compensation practices,...

October 31, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The investment management division of Morgan Stanley has announced an agreement to acquire FrontPoint Partners, a Greenwich, Connecticut firm with approximately $5.5 billion...

October 31, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged auto parts supplier Delphi Corporation and 13 individuals with fraud in connection with a scheme...

October 31, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - At a time when demand for talent is high and the pool of available talent is shrinking, accounting firms are not delivering on...

October 31, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Total compensation costs for civilian, private industry, and state and local government employers were little changed in the quarter ending September 2006 from...

October 31, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Five hospitals in South Florida have announced they will give preferential status to vendors who provide health insurance to their employees.

October 31, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Staffing company Manpower Inc. announced that it has beefed up its social responsibility program to encompass a broader range of initiatives.

October 30, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Court of Appeals of Virginia has determined that an employee who decided to forego an emergency room wait after a work-related accident...

October 30, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - JPMorgan Chase & Co. said on Friday its Bank One mutual funds unit had received a letter from the U.S. Securities and Exchange...