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May 27, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Rumors of a new directive on cash balance plan accounting has fanned concerns among the benefits community.

May 27, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Ground control to Major Tom - you may have made the grade, but your bonds might be looking at a downgrade by Moody's...

May 3, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Alaska lawmakers' efforts to reform the state's pensions systems took a detour Monday after a state House staff member discovered a statute requiring...

May 27, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Louisville Metro Mayor Jerry Abramson may think venture capital investment is a good business move, but it doesn't look as though it will...

May 27, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Russell/Mellon Trust Universes have expanded to include global equity and non-US fixed income asset classes.

March 4, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - American employers were apparently busy bringing on new workers in February as the nation's job machine created 262,000 new nonfarm positions over the...

April 15, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The AFL-CIO has launched a vote "no" campaign targeting "derelict" directors at 10 companies where chief executives received excessive pay packages.

March 4, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -Smaller US firms and overseas corporations will now have an extra year to comply with a recent law requiring public reports on their internal...

April 15, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) may take enforcement action against Conseco Inc for allegedly...

April 15, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), said on Thursday that it would withhold votes for Apple Computer Inc.'s entire board of directors.

March 4, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Company medical insurance 2005 premiums rose approximately 10% which represents the sixth straight year of double-digit rate increases, according to the Hay Benefits...

April 16, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A clever, but still somewhat creepy, ad campaign from Burger King has created one of the hottest sites on the Internet.

April 15, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Verizon retirees are calling for greater independence of the company's board of directors and shareholder approval of any "extraordinary benefits" distributed through supplemental...

April 15, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com)—New Jersey Investment Council will not unite with the California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS), the country's biggest publicpension fund, in withholding votes for Citigroup...

March 4, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A former River Vale, New Jersey, employee is suing the township because her office is too small.

March 4, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A day after Putnam Trustees approved a study that would see the company pay over $100 million in damages to shareholders, two money...

March 3, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Enron has agreed to settle suits brought by employees regarding pension plan investments in company stock.

March 3, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has reportedly launched an investigation into possible widespread Wall Street abuses, with the focus now being put...

March 3, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mutual fund intermediaries will have to name suspected market timers, supply their transaction information to fund companies, and possibly restrict their trading under...

March 3, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nuveen Investments Inc. revealed Thursday in a regulatory filing that the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) believes its asset management unit overcharged...