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November 5, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employees responding to a new survey had one piece of advice for managers trying to find the best way to communicate with their...

November 8, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a tough hiring environment, it can be difficult to get your foot in the door - unless you know how to stick...

November 8, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A recent survey shows that fund sponsors rank management fees as only in the middle of a priority list when conducting due diligence...

July 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The General Accounting Office (GAO) has its critical eyes on the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) after designating the federal agency "high risk."

July 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Now that they have had to comply with its dictates, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act is significantly less popular among executives at US multinational firms,...

July 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More than four out of 10 families had a participant in an employment-based retirement plan in 2001, a level virtually unchanged from 1998's...

June 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Under growing fire for its compensation practices, one of the nation's largest pension funds has frozen its employee bonuses.

June 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Chief executives of S&P 500 companies enjoyed faster increases in total compensation from 2001 to 2002 than their non- S&P 500 counterparts, according...

June 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The stubborn and unforgiving economic downturn continued to exact its economic pound of flesh on financial services firms with word that Northern Trust...

June 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Trying to fan the embers of investor interest, Fidelity Investments is removing an upfront sales charge on several funds, including Magellan - the...

June 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - There are significant differences between the way men use a self-directed brokerage account (SDBA) than women including the fact that three times as...

June 11, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Three large U.S. insurance providers revealed Friday that they had been hit with subpoenas from New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer seeking information...

November 5, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Bolstered by a huge influx of post-hurricane construction work, the nation's employment picture brightened considerably in October with the addition of 337,000 new...

May 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Even though a former Illinois judge was convicted of extortion, he is still entitled to get back $113,400 he paid into a retirement...

May 11, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Regulators have expanded their probe of Putnam Investments' mutual fund practices to examine the relationship between the firm and certain multiemployer deferred compensation...

May 11, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 2003 scandal at the Ohio State Teachers Retirement System (STRS) over lavish spending has claimed yet another victim.

May 11, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Investment Company Institute (ICI) has thrown its weight behind the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) proposal to prohibit mutual funds from...

May 11, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The top Washington State securities regulator is inching closer to slapping Morgan Stanley with regulatory action for the quality of the advice it...

May 11, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Although an official at California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) said he is ready to recommend the fund step up its hedge fund...

May 11, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - J. & W. Seligman & Co. has paid almost $2 million to three of its own mutual funds, a move related to the...