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December 16, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Knight Securities, L.P has agreed to a $79 million settlement with regulators of charges it had defrauded institutional customers by taking out too...

April 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Almost 50% of human resource professionals say that monetary rewards programs are "very effective" at motivating top-performing employees, according to a survey from...

April 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Actively managed mid- and small-cap mutual funds lagged their relative S&P benchmarks during the first quarter of 2005, Standard & Poor's reported.

April 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Actively managed mid- and small-cap mutual funds lagged their relative S&P benchmarks during the first quarter of 2005, Standard & Poor's reported.

April 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Yoh, a recruiting outsourcer, has announced the introduction of Yoh HR Solutions, a talent-based recruiting process outsourcing service.

April 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The world's equity markets lost ground in March, with only Denmark, Iceland and Canada posting gains in the third month of the year.

April 11, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - OppenheimerFunds has announced the launch of the Oppenheimer Portfolio Series, a set of risk-specific asset allocation mutual funds that invest in a portfolio...

April 11, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America and Destiny Health have teamed up to offer an enhanced Health Savings Account (HSA), which the...

April 11, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Invesmart has announced it will offer RightPath, its defined contribution (DC) plan, through Registered Investment Advisors (RIAs) and other fee-based financial intermediaries.

November 16, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new study said 63 basis points or less is a "reasonable" standard for participants to pay annually in investment management fees.

November 4, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Connecticut pension fund earned a 10.5% return on investments in the last fiscal year, aided by double-digit growth in its real estate...

April 11, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Supreme Court has overturned lower court rulings for a case in which a couple was trying to shield their IRA accounts...

November 16, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Oracle Corp.'s hostile takeover bid for PeopleSoft Inc. got mixed news Tuesday when one large shareholder came out in favor of the $8.8-billion...

April 11, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Texas Supreme Court has ruled that a temporary employment agency's client is not protected by workers compensation's exclusive remedy provision unless it...

April 11, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Many recent efforts to change CEO compensation programs have been focused on linking pay to performance and these efforts seem to be paying...

October 4, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Delta Air Lines Inc. has asked a bankruptcy court to allow it to stop funding some pilots' pensions.

October 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Approximately 7,000 retirees from Bethlehem Steel Corporation will not only be receiving smaller pension checks than expected, but must also pay back some...

October 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Recent investigations by Massachusetts state regulators into Putnam Investments mutual fund market timing were spurred by a call-center employee, after his complaints to...

October 4, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The funding level of 55 city and county retirement systems improved markedly between 2003 and 2004, according to a new Wilshire Consulting report.

October 4, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A two-year-old memo from private lawyers representing San Diego's pension fund was sharply critical of the fund's agreement with a decision to delay...