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June 24, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - One prominent business group has appealed to the nation's accounting rulemaker to delay implementing stock option expensing and to test various valuation models.

June 24, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While the value of new stock option awards to CEOs at large companies plunged near 60% between 2001 and 2003, there was also...

June 24, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The NASD has censured and fined five brokerage firms a total of $625,000 for not preventing late trading with adequate supervisory systems and...

December 6, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has issued a warning that hiring managers should not prejudge a job applicant's medical condition and use that as...

December 6, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Qwest Communications retirees won partial victories in their fight to get information about the management of their pension fund.

December 6, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Supreme Court refused to review a case concerning a blind worker who was fired for a bad attitude, poor work ethic,...

December 6, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Verizon Communications Inc. has announced that it will freeze its pension plan for managers and increase matching contributions in its 401(k) plan instead.

December 6, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A growing number of large employers are stepping up programs to make their workers both more productive and healthy.

December 6, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Naperville, Illinois telemarketing company which refused to hire a blind woman who showed up for the interview with a guide dog has...

December 6, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Wachovia Corporation is now a member of the RolloverSystems Network of IRA providers.

December 6, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Northern Trust Global Investments (NTGI) has announced the creation of seven new institutional index funds to aid US public funds in meeting investment...

December 5, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in West Virginia has thrown out a benefits denial by an accidental death and dismemberment benefit plan administrator who turned...

December 5, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Western District of North Carolina denied summary judgment in favor of an employer accused of a breach...

December 5, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in New York has refused to approve a proposed $3.5 million settlement with the company that had been calculating the...

May 24, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An Ohio Ethics Commission report accuses four investment managers of giving staff, family members and friends of the Ohio Police & Fire Pension...

May 24, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The once-flaming controversy over the ultra-rich compensation package given to former New York Stock Exchange chairman Dick Grasso appeared to heat up again...

May 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Critics complain that a deal between the city of San Diego and one of its unions that is predicted to generate $200 million...

May 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A coalition of 26 public pension funds have vowed to invest $1 billion into clean technology companies in the next year.

May 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Prominent technology company Cisco Systems has thrown a new wrinkle into the ongoing controversy over stock option expensing with a proposal to publicly...

April 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Socially responsible (SRI) mutual funds are much stronger proponents of corporate governance shareholder resolutions than their conventional brethren, according to a study by...