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March 31, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Defined benefit schemes in the United States came back to domestic equities in 2003 at the expense of fixed-income holdings.

March 31, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employees at U.S. companies discount the value of stock option grants by 30% to 50% relative to the options' actual value.

March 31, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Some 16 out of 100 workplaces connected to public stock market companies granted stock options in 2002 to more than half of their...

July 3, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Research from Prudential indicates that over 70% of Americans recognize the five years before and five years after retirement represent a time that...

July 3, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An Arizona paving contractor settled a sexual harassment suit from some of its workers, though the company's president denied any wrongdoing.

March 31, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has reached a settlement agreement with Massachusetts Financial Services Co. (MFS) regarding payments the firm made...

March 31, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's accounting rulemaking body - the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) - has issued an Exposure Draft outlining the compulsory expensing of...

March 31, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has come out with its mandatory stock option expensing proposal, but Towers Perrin says the effect...

July 3, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The board that sets accounting standards for government agencies has distributed new guidance on how the government bodies should report federal payments under...

July 3, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A law set to go into effect in Canada on December 12, 2006 will make it illegal for employers to mandate retirement for...

July 3,2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge threw out a lawsuit of a woman who claimed a Wisconsin restaurant did not hire her because she was HIV positive....

February 7, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Securities class-action settlements reached a record level in 2005, according to a report from Cornerstone Research.

February 7, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A bill introduced by California Assemblyman Keith Richman proposes an outside audit of the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) every three years.

February 7, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Trustees of Massachusetts' $40.2-billion state pension fund have given final approval to an emergency move made last year to fire Fidelity Investments as...

January 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Duff & Phelps has acquired Valuemetrics, a financial advisory firm specializing in valuation services, litigation support and ESOP advisory services.

January 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Following the downgrading of the country's debt, Philippine officials are expressing concern that the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) will pull out...

January 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Dallas law firm has filed a series of lawsuits against mutual fund companies, alleging that they failed to collect money due to...

January 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A class-action securities lawsuit against Arthur Andersen has survived a legal challenge with a federal judge's ruling that a pension fund and other...

January 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The fate of the United Airlines pilots' defined benefit pension would be left temporarily unresolved under a revised contract disclosed Wednesday that also...

June 29, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Arizona State Retirement System pensioners will not get a raise in their monthly pension checks this year and likely will not see a...