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April 24, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - What do the AIDS epidemic in Africa and soft drink sales have in common? Not much you might think, but then some institutional...

April 24, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A day after the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) endorsed requiring companies to treat stock option grants as expenses, Knight Ridder fended off...

April 24, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Standard & Poor's said 2002 saw a $206 billion pension shortfall among the companies in the S&P 500.

April 24, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Corporate managers would be banned from strong-arming auditors reviewing their books under one of two rules green lighted Thursday by the US Securities...

April 12, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With pension reform stalled in the legislature, Ohio Governor Bob Taft has called on the state's five public-employee retirement systems to enact ethical...

April 12, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Investors, and institutional investors in particular, have been increasingly vocal of late. But they may have to watch what they say.

April 12, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Many employees may spend their days fretting about money, but those worries apparently don't extend to Chinese Americans, according to a new survey.

April 12, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The investment manager and independent fiduciary for the company stock fund in W.R. Grace & Co.'s 401(k) plan has sold "substantially all" of...

December 3, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Putnam Investments has announced the departure of Deborah Kuenstner, Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer of the Large Cap Value and International Value...

March 24, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More than six months after promising a ruling "within several days", the judge in the Enron bankruptcy case says Enron participants will bear...

March 24, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Montana pension officials have joined continuing American protests against France's opposition to the Iraq war by deciding to sell $14.9 million of their...

March 24, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More than 70% of UK final salary pension plans have slammed shut their front doors to no longer admit new members while another...

March 24, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nine of the largest US firms managed to legally bury $30.6 billion in pension fund losses under current accounting rules, according to a...

March 24, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A decision by the federal pension insurer that could come this week about a deal between US Airways and its pilots on a...

December 3, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal court has ruled that 46 employees' benefits were not unfairly reduced when their division was sold off to the division's managers.

December 3, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A $1.125 million settlement agreement between Franklin Mint Co. and a group of workers who accused the company of breaching its fiduciary duties...

December 3, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pennsylvania Governor Edward Rendell has vetoed a bill that would have taxed compensation from a nonqualified deferred compensation plan when it was received...

December 3, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new poll suggests that a majority of employees are not happy with their incentive programs.

December 3, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The number of companies offering educational programs on self-care topics is up in all seven categories covered by the American Management Association's (AMA)...

December 2, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Charles Novak, the former vice president and business agent of Local One of the International Union of Elevator Constructors in New York, has...