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April 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The seven-member Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has unanimously agreed that companies should be required to treat stock option grants as expenses.

November 4, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Bank of America (BOA) employees are suing the giant banking company over its cash-balance pension plan in a sign that the plans continue...

November 3, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has ruled that top executives were responsible for what their subordinates were or were not doing in a case of...

November 3, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers in a poll of Northeast companies overwhelmingly listed the rising cost of providing employee health-care coverage as the most pressing benefits issue...

November 3, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The name of the game in mutual funds during the third quarter was the value investing approach, according to a Mercer Investment Consulting...

November 3, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Standard & Poor's reported that October hedge fund performance, as measured by the S&P Hedge Fund Index, was up 0.72% for the month,...

March 11, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors are beginning to get some guidance on what is a cash balance pension plan and how to measure one's obligations, courtesy...

March 11, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Bank of America Corp. may pay at least $250 million to settle charges that it allowed favored clients to late trade its mutual...

March 11, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - If employers can tee up guidance personalized with an employee's personal data like age, salary, years until retirement, and investment choices, retirement plan...

March 11, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's largest public pension fund is apparently set to link arms with a handful of its sister public funds in adopting a...

November 3, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has ruled that top executives were responsible for what their subordinates were or were not doing in a case of...

November 3, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - SunGard Corbel has expanded its lineup of communications pamphlets for plan sponsors with 457 plans.

November 3, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Supreme Court is set to hear a case that is expected to set new standards for on-the-job lawsuits regarding age discrimination.

November 2, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Net inflows into the mutual fund industry in September topped $21 billion, according to estimates by the Financial Research Corporation (FRC).

November 2, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US value stock funds have brought higher returns on the year, but growth funds seem to be picking up steam, outperforming value funds...

November 2, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US employers have raised the bar on qualifying for non-executive variable pay plans in the last year or plan to do so in...

November 2, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Aetna has announced that it has begun marketing six new preferred provider organization (PPO) plans for families and individuals in 62 Illinois counties.

November 2, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Standard Insurance Company has released The Standard Select suite of insurance products, featuring enhancements to its Group Life, Long Term Disability (LTD), Short...

November 2, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - CONEXIS, a benefits administration company, has announced the release of a new education program for Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA).

November 1, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Deloitte has announced the launch of a pension pooling offering and is working with consumer products group Unilever to implement pooling in practice.