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March 30, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Gevity has acquired the human resources outsourcing portfolio of privately held EPIX Holdings Corporation of Tampa, Florida.

March 6, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - "Without significant changes in the design of both pension and retiree health care benefits plans, the taxpayers of Pennsylvania will likely be facing...

March 6, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The number of financial restatements by public companies almost doubled in 2005, in part because of stricter requirements governed by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act...

March 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Final salary pension determinations for California public employees would be based on a three-year rather than a one-year average under a slate of...

June 2, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An employer lobbying group said that the Financial Accounting Standards Board's (FASB) draft on accounting changes for pensions aand other post-retirement plans are...

February 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Three of Ohio's public retirement systems have been appointed lead plaintiff in a securities class action lawsuit against giant insurer American International Group,...

June 2, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Workstream Inc. introduced a new version of its Web-based benefit enrollment and administration application, which allows employees and administrators to view and revise...

June 2, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals found that Michigan prisoners' rights as participants in pension plans were violated by orders of the...

June 2, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Officials at the federal government's Human Resources office say the recent awarding of a $40 million consulting contract is an important step towards...

February 6, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Yields on 30-year bonds dropped more than three-quarters of a percentage point since the US Treasury's last sale of the bonds in August...

June 2, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US unemployment rate dropped to a five-year low of 4.6% in May, according to Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)...

February 6, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Confederation of British Industry's (CBI) response to the UK Pension Regulator's proposals for funding standards warned they could put many companies in...

February 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A record 31 shareholder resolutions have been filed regarding global warming in the 2005 proxy season, according to investor group Ceres.

June 2, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The South Carolina Supreme Court issued a July 1 deadline for the state to refund the money to about 14,000 working retirees who...

February 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced that it will not require Aetna Inc. to hear a shareholder vote on the company's...

June 2, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Three Democratic New Jersey lawmakers have proposed a plan that would cut workers' salaries and benefits by 15%, saving the state an estimated...

June 2, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A recent survey that measured the usage of Health Savings Accounts (HSA), and similar health care plans showed that only one in five...

February 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - American Express financial advisors got secret incentives to push the firm's own poorly performing mutual funds rather than recommending competitors' investment options, regulators...

February 6, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An Indiana pension fund has filed suit against a Covington, Kentucky-based firm - the nation's largest supplier of prescriptions drugs to nursing homes...

February 6, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The SPARK Institute has released sample contract language for retirement plan service providers to use in compliance with Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)...