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January 3, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While it seemed the emerging markets sector was declining based on a downturn experienced earlier in 2006, the Credit Suisse/Tremont Emerging Markets Hedge...

January 3, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The sluggish growth of Japan's asset management industry is partly due to the reticence of a large number of public pension funds to...

January 3, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Under pressure from regulators, another insurer has decided to stop paying contingent commissions - by 2008.

January 3, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Health spending per capita in the US is much higher than in other countries - at least 24% higher than in the next...

January 3, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court in Lynchburg, Virginia, has handed prison sentences to two executives of a closed wood manufacturing plant for swindling employee...

January 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - UK pension plan deficits among FTSE 350 companies dropped by more than a third (38%) in 2006, according to Mercer Human Resource Consulting.

January 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A good working environment is often more valuable to workers than pay and low employee morale leads to lower productivity, according to a...

January 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A former employee of a subsidiary of General Electric Co. (GE) has filed a class-action suit over the theft of a laptop from...

February 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A pension overhaul proposal put forth by Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich is "very risky" according to the director of the State University Retirement...

January 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Jefferies & Company, Inc has announced the introduction of 20 proprietary equity indices to track the performance of small- and mid-cap companies, both...

January 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Lawmakers from Massachusetts - the only state where gay marriages are legal - have given preliminary approval to placing a proposed constitutional amendment...

February 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Pension Plan has filed suit against insurance giant American International Group in an ongoing...

January 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Insurance company CIGNA has launched its newly redesigned Web site, which it said should make it easier for users to get health and...

January 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - On the last day of 2006, two more financial services firms announced settlements with regulators about their insurance business practices.

January 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Suffolk County, New York judge granted summary judgment to dismiss a claim against 7-Eleven brought by a customer who was splashed with...

January 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Microtune Inc. has announced that the Audit Committee of its Board of Directors found during an internal investigation that, prior to August 2003,...

January 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court's decision that a police officer who was forced to take extended leave...

Massachusetts Secretary of State William Galvin is looking into whether hedge funds have increased their trading fees to compensate banks for office space they lease as a temporary...

January 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The number of securities fraud class actions filed in 2006 was the lowest ever recorded in a calendar year since the adoption of...

January 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The St. Louis-based law firm of Schlichter Bogard & Denton has filed another 401(k) fee lawsuit - this one against plan sponsor ABB...