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July 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Standard & Poor's newly released Pension Status Report for the S&P 500 shows pension funds were underfunded $164 billion in 2004, only slightly...

June 7, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - SuccessFactors, Inc., a provider of on-demand performance and talent management solutions, today announced a partnership with Development Dimensions International (DDI), a global human...

June 7, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Merrill Lynch & Co. has said settlement talks have broken down regarding claims that the company discriminated against African-American brokers, Reuters reports.

June 7, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Patelco, a national credit union, introduced the ShareBuilder 401(k), which offers participants in small businesses the options of a big business pension plan.

July 30, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A former money manager for the Maryland state pension system abused the trust of thousands of retirees by using their money for his...

June 7, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pennsylvania-based company's Target Retirement Funds now include 11 funds, which gradually shift to more conservative investments as the retirement age approaches.

July 6, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In Mercury Interactive's internal investigation, the company found 54 instances of stock options backdating starting as far back as 1994, which prompted it...

July 30, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mellon Financial Corporation has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the remaining portion of Pareto Partners from the firm's employees and XL Capital...

July 30, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - International equity managers gave back some of the gains of 2003 and the first of the year in the second quarter.

July 30, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), which has long rebuked attempts at sweeping automated trading reforms, may be prepared to unveil an electronic...

July 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Average daily trading for exchange traded funds (ETFs) rose to $14.8 billion, up from $12.5 billion, in the first half of 2005, Reuters...

June 7, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Northwest Airlines sent Representative John Boehner a letter saying that it would be forced to terminate its employee pension plan if Congress did...

June 7, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The compensation for about 85,000 UK workers who lost their pensions will be far less than the £15 billion some ministers said it...

June 6, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Government Pension Fund-Global, which is managed by the central bank of Norway, said Tuesday that it broke its ties with two more companies...

June 6, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new retirement index found that 45% of working-age households are "at risk" of not being able to afford the same standard of...

June 6, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) said it was investigating FedEx Corp's requirement that employees pass a cognitive abilities test for promotion past...

June 6, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The McCamish Systems Retirement Services Group has released materials to help plan sponsors comply with the latest rules for 409A non-qualified deferred compensation...

June 6, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new survey on talent management finds that US companies are not making good use of their existing talent pools.

June 6, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - MetLife announced the availability of a Roth account option for its 403(b) plan customers.

June 30, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) is hinting at the possibility that the January 1, 2005 date for mandatory stock option expensing will...