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January 4, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Northwest Airlines has settled a lawsuit alleging the air carrier excluded applicants for airport ramp equipment service employee and cleaner positions if they...

April 13, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) unanimously approved regulations requiring mutual funds to clearly disclose their market timing policies.

April 1, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Investment Dealers Association of Canada (IDA) will return $7.2 million to 17 mutual fund companies for reimbursement to pay back investors for...

April 25, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Vanguard is adding a 2% redemption fee to nine international equity funds held less than two months to discourage investors from exploiting time...

January 4, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Park Avenue Securities LLC, has announced a new asset management program exclusively utilizing Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs).

January 4, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has overturned a lower court's ruling that allowed an employee who left a company four months before it merged...

January 4, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Trust-advised Excelsior Funds have added a new Retirement Share class ("R" share) to their family of funds.

April 25, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Despite urging from the company's directors to vote down the measure, shareholders at Apple Computer have approved a resolution calling for the company...

January 3, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) again performed well in 2004, taking advantage of low interest rates, according to the NAREIT Composite REIT Index.

January 3, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Because workers at Canada's top companies are so much more engaged in their work, those firms can attract the best employees who are...

January 3, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Controlling the cost of health care to employees is the number one benefits priority for 2005, according to the Top Five Total Rewards...

January 3, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California State Compensation Insurance Fund has filed a lawsuit to make sure that workers' compensation insurance adequately covers staff from outsourcing firms.

January 3, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Wells Fargo, following the completion of the acquisition of the Strong Financial Retirement Plan Services business, has announced the hiring of five new...

January 3, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A long-running case involving New York State's right to tax telecommuters of businesses based in its jurisdiction will come to an appeals court...

March 1, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Public pension fund's home-state private equity investments tend to underperform, a sign that political pressure can lead some funds to make poor investment...

March 1, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Hartford Financial Services Group has disclosed that is has reached an agreement in principle to compensate its mutual fund investors for harm...

March 25, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Indiana state pension officials have demanded that a temp agency make up more than $23,000 after accusing a temp refunds analyst placed at...

March 1, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A fat compensation package in no way means that corporate executives are at the top of their game - at least not at...

March 1, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Electronic agency brokerage Instinet Group has worked out a deal with Reuters to buy Bridge Trading Company a soft-dollar institutional securities execution broker,...

March 25, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The average annual expense ratio of US mutual funds rose from 1.24% in 2001 to 1.26% last year.