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March 3, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Trustees of The Putnam Funds have approved a report that put the firm's total market timing reimbursement costs at $108.5 million, a...

March 27, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -The AFL-CIO has launched a new round of shareholder initiatives focusing on Sprint Corporation's auditor, Ernst & Young.

March 27, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has objected to Bethlehem Steel's plan to auction its assets to International Steel Group.

March 15, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The FTSE4Good Index has completed its semi-annual housekeeping, removing a host of United States-based firms for environmental and human rights concerns.

March 3, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Bank of America has agreed to settle its portion of a class action lawsuit brought against it and other banks regarding their underwriting...

March 15, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Bank of America Corp and FleetBoston Financial Corp have reached settlement agreements with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) related to their roles...

March 15, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com)—Three former officers at Mutuals.com, a Dallas broker-dealer, have been charged with conspiring to commit securities fraud related to market timing of mutual-fund trades, according...

March 3, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Canadian unit of Franklin Resources Inc. will pay C$49.1 million ($39.4 million) to reimburse investors for allowing rapid trading of some of...

March 27, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Still feeling treated like second-class corporate citizens, women are increasingly leaving big companies to start their own businesses.

March 27, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has cautioned that some corporations may be mounting a fee embargo counterattack to daunt the push to...

March 2, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is investigating the BNY Hamilton mutual fund family to see if its marketing and distribution expenses...

March 3, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - MetLife Retirement & Savings has added the Morningstar Learning Station as a new source of online educational content on the participant Web site...

March 3, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Better financial results in 2004 will likely lead companies to produce stronger annual incentive awards for executives based on such performance in 2005.

March 3, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - MetLife Retirement & Savings has added the Morningstar Learning Station as a new source of online educational content on the participant Web site...

March 27, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - At least one mutual fund family has put off the introduction of stable value offerings because of new scrutiny by the US Securities...

March 3, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Russell Investment Group has launched four target maturity retirement funds in its LifePoints Funds family.

March 27, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A small, stagnant board of directors that has not separated chairman and CEO roles have landed the Xerox Corporation at the top of...

March 2, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Principal Financial Group has tapped Tim Minard as senior vice president for retirement distribution among several other executive appointments announced Wednesday.

February 27, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - ING and Morningstar Associates LLC are bringing a new joint service to plan sponsors providing research, selection, and monitoring of plan investments.

March 2, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal court has denied IBM's motion to dismiss in a case involving an employee who claimed he was fired because of his...