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April 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Bridgestone/Firestone North American Tire has agreed to advance an Army National Guardsman within its pay schedule and give him back pay as part...

July 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The average institution's portfolio-trading volume increased nearly 10% from $7.6 billion in 2002 to $8.3 billion in 2003.

April 6, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Assurant Health has announced multiple enhancements to its Health Savings Account product for individuals and small groups.

June 16, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A leading proxy vote advisory service reported that it urged clients to withhold voting support for director nominees at only 32% of companies...

April 6, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court's ruling that non-compete agreements from insurance giant Marsh & McLennan Companies was unenforceable under...

April 6,2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - AT&T has been cleared of violating its fiduciary duty by a federal appeals court in a case involving former employees who felt they were...

April 6, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal securities regulators unanimously voted Wednesday to allow Wall Street investment brokers to keep hawking investment advice without having to become registered investment...

April 6, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The number of IT jobs outsourced to countries such as India and China is expected to skyrocket from the current 5% to an...

April 6, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - California state appeals judges have turned away a challenge to a recent ruling upholding the Golden State's expansion of domestic partnership rights.

April 6, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers are using performance plans to measure their employees, but aren't turning a critical eye on the plans themselves, a Hewitt Associates report...

June 16, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a stunning announcement this morning, Human Resource Outsourcing (HRO) giants Hewitt Associates and Exult, Inc. have agreed to merge in an all-stock...

June 16, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The strong equity gains that lifted single-employer defined benefit plans in 2003 did the same for multiemployer schemes that recorded a median return...

April 6, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Nebraska federal judge has granted class action status to a lawsuit representing about 400 current and former Union Pacific Railroad workers who...

June 16, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The mutual fund industry blames hedge funds for picking "the pockets of long-term mutual fund investors," but hedge funds say mutual funds could...

April 6, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Britain's Pension Protection Fund (PPF), which started work on Wednesday as the UK's answer to the US Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) as...

June 16, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has revised its two-year-old civil fraud action against New Jersey hedge fund Beacon Hill Asset Management.

April 5, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - State Street Corporation has announced multiple changes to its Web site, www.my.statestreet.com.

May 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has made a preliminary decision requiring companies to offer more pension plan details - details that currently...

April 5, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - William Sweetnam, Jr., who recently served as the principal legal advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury on employee benefits matters, has joined...

April 5, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new Deloitte survey indicates that there was a dramatic rise in the use of investment advisors by plan sponsors, as well as...