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January 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Financial advisors helping clients find the best 529 college savings plan may get some help from a new online plan search tool.

January 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Some 40% of plan sponsor respondents say their pension expenses will rise by more than 50% this year, according to Deloitte & Touche.

January 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pension funding shortfalls in 2002 for Canada's 100 largest corporate plans could be as much as CDN $23.5 billion.

January 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Japanese fund manager Sparx Asset Management Co, has concluded a stock deal for control of a $200 million dollar fund to be set...

January 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nearly two-thirds of Generation X professionals currently use or plan to use a financial planner.

January 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The escalating battle of wills between Pennsylvania Auditor General Robert Casey, Jr. and Pennsylvania's two major public employee pension funds is getting even...

October 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Washington state residents can now order cheaper Canadian prescription drugs over the Internet as part of a three-state online partnership.

October 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - On the whole, IT professionals shouldn't look for much more in their paychecks next year, according to a new study

October 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Accounting and finance professionals will find fatter paychecks on the whole in 2005, but not much fatter than this year, according to a...

October 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Circuit City Stores Inc. is freezing its defined benefits pension plan, instead opting to increase funding for the company's 401(k) defined contribution plan.

October 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Older Canadian workers are more likely to report workplace stress issues than their younger counterparts, bucking conventional wisdom and showing trends that may...

October 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Although the cost of employee benefits and compensation expenses continued to rise, the rate of increase eased off slightly during the third quarter.

October 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With a wary eye cast toward health-care cost increases continuing their double-digit journey skyward, an alarming number of Americans are ready to cut...

October 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Investors continue to be concerned about running out of money in retirement so they are trying to save more than in years past,...

October 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Benefits and health care are important in both choosing a President and choosing a job, a new survey by MetLife asserts.

October 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The median International equity manager in the InterSec EAFE+ peer group showed flat returns for the third quarter with a return of just...

October 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An obese participant in a union-run health plan lost another legal fight in his battle to get health-care coverage for his gastric bypass...

October 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that former common-law spouses cannot collect survivor pension benefits, unlike their married-but-separated counterparts.

October 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Wealth Management Systems Inc. (WMSI), a Holgate, New Jersey financial services technology provider, has unveiled an automated IRA rollover solution.

October 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Over twenty years after it started as an idea in Francis Vitagliano's head, a card that allows 401(k) plan participants to borrow from...