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April 6, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Merrill Lynch analysis of stock holdings at 150 mutual funds shows that both growth and value funds that are overweight in consumer...

March 18, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com)—The British Financial Services Authority (FSA) has not found any evidence of illegal, late trading but has uncovered some evidence of market timing in UK...

June 3, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US companies cut back on their personnel expansion during May as hiring managers only added 78,000 new jobs - way below the 175,000...

March 18, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Even though multiemployer plans are suddenly finding themselves falling into underfunded status, the US General Accounting Office (GAO) urges the US Congress to...

March 18, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com)— A series of initiatives currently under consideration threaten the future of the US corporate pension system, according to a report issued by the Committee...

March 18, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com)—Marsh & McLennan Cos. Inc.'s board agreed to nominate Zachary Carter, a former federal prosecutor suggested by four of the largest US state workers pension...

June 3, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A St. Louis security guard service has agreed to a $50,000 out-of-court settlement of a lawsuit charging that it discriminated against a pregnant...

June 3, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A UK financial services company will allow employees to continue working until age 75, the firm announced Thursday.

June 3, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With a consultant's warning ringing in their ears that their current $24.2 billion shortfall could balloon to more than $200 billion in 30...

June 3, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two of New Jersey's state pension funds are facing a combined $8.5 billion funding shortfall, according to two recent actuarial reports.

March 18, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The $161 billion California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) will withhold votes for three PeopleSoft Inc's directors up for reelection next week.

February 18, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Deloitte survey has found that many companies are slashing their stock option program, which will impact the number of options granted to...

February 18, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - To continue to invest, or to not continue investment in the Philippines is still the question in the mind of the California Public...

June 2, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court ruling that a doctor is not entitled to a preliminary injunction barring a Chicago...

June 2, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The state of Wisconsin has joined other states in trying to force retailing giant Wal-Mart into paying more for its employees' health-care coverage.

February 18, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Responding to charges filed by regulators in Massachusetts earlier this month, Franklin Resources Inc. says the controversial market-timing trades of a singular investor...

June 2, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The vast majority of 401(k) participants now have the ability to "catch up" on their retirement savings, but few are taking advantage, according...

February 18, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Despite high-profile reports to the contrary in the recent months, one industry group is saying the average cost to own mutual fund shares...

June 2, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Prudential Retirement has launched Signature Online, a Web-based education center that brings together the resources of Prudential and the CIGNA retirement business acquired...

February 18, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The hard hit US unit of Sun Life Financial Services is once again under the regulatory microscope - this time for directed brokerage...