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August 26, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The strengthening equity market smiled on the Arizona State Retirement System (ASRS) as the public pension fund crawled into the black for the...

August 26, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Large companies tend to lay off more workers, tend to have larger pension funding problems and apparently pay their chief executives better -...

February 8, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An e-mail to an employee offering severance benefits of six months salary did not create an Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) severance...

August 26, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Siebel Systems Inc. has agreed to come clean about the pay of its board members and top executives as part of a settlement...

August 26, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Computer Associates International (CA) has decided to wrap up its raft of pending litigation by settling shareholder lawsuits with awards of 5.7 million...

February 8, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has won a suit brought against The Dial Corporation that alleged that a pre-employment strength test discriminated...

February 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A lawsuit seeking class-action status filed in federal court is alleging that Citigroup's cash-balance pension plan violates minimum accrual rules.

February 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - January chief executive turnover surged to its highest level since 2001, as 92 CEOs announced their departures.

February 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - January chief executive turnover surged to its highest level since 2001, as 92 CEOs announced their departures.

February 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fixed income mutual funds saw slight gains in the fourth quarter, while small-cap equity mutual funds saw double-digit returns in the same time...

February 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As an extension of their advice, managed account, and rollover services, Atlanta-based ProNvest has announced several product enhancements.

February 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Morningstar has unveiled an equity grading system to evaluate how often companies align their corporate concerns with shareholders' interests.

July 14, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has taken a major step in requiring hedge fund managers to disclose more information about their investments.

July 14, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Even though Fidelity Investments has managed to stay out of the ongoing mutual fund trading scandal mess, it apparently had at least one...

July 14, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com)—Across all three age groups, GenXers, Boomers, and Matures, the average annual amount contributed to retirement savings has increased 18% since 2003, now at $10,164,...

July 14, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A former Maryland state official, who allegedly defrauded the state pension system with investments in his own company, told his former mistress and...

February 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Warning that the financial integrity of the nation's insurer of private defined benefit pensions was up in the air, the Bush Administration has...

July 14, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Ahmass Fakahany, Chief Financial Officer of Merrill Lynch & Co., said the firm has no plans to sell-off its asset-management arm, Merrill Lynch...

February 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Employee Benefits Security Administration has launched a new Web page for the Bush Administration's pension reform proposal.

February 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) has a new president and CEO: William Hunt.