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November 10, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Bank of America has admitted in a regulatory filing that it is being audited by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) regarding its switch...

November 10, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Not too long after waging a boardroom brawl with Michael Eisner, chief executive officer of Walt Disney Co., Roy Disney is out beating...

November 10, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More than a third (35%) of companies in a recent poll say they plan to change their employee stock purchase plans (ESPP) before...

October 22, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Questions surrounding Freddie Mac's tax treatment of linked swaps in its retirement plan could hit the federal mortgage broker with a $750 million...

October 22, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Following Judge G Patrick Murphy's ruling that IBM's cash balance pension plan violated age discrimination laws, workers at Big Blue are requesting the...

October 22, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Next time you think pension underfunding in the United States has run amok, consider that the 100 largest Japanese pensions hold funds equal...

October 22, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - AIM Investments has gained shareholder approval in the reorganizations of eight AIM mutual funds.

October 22, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Financial Accounting Standards Board's (FASB) proposals requiring more disclosures on pensions and other post-retirement benefits has caught the critical ire of Mercer...

September 22, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Change is coming to the beleaguered Ohio State Teachers Retirement System, but it apparently won't include layoffs, according to published reports.

September 22, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Wilshire Associates was allowed to conduct high-speed, high-volume mutual fund trades that ultimately harmed the performance of the funds' long-term investors.

September 22, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A suburban-Chicago woman has been charged with stealing $3.6 million over eight years from an electrical contracting company where she managed the 401(k)...

September 10, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Putnam Investments, recently rocked by the mutual fund trading scandal, has announced that it is realigning its small-cap portfolio teams under the leadership...

September 10, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employee Stock Purchase Plans (ESPP) will not be charged as a corporate compensation cost under a new "safe harbor" provision approved by the...

September 10, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Having extracted a funding agreement for its pension plans from Enron, the nation's private pension plan insurer has withdrawn its objection to a...

October 8, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) has extended the deadline for filing Form 5500 and Form 5500 EZ because...

October 8, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal anti-discrimination officials have hit the city of Saginaw with a lawsuit over charges that the city improperly calculated a police officer's pension...

October 8, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Maybe Canadians just like it because it allows them more time for hockey, but the job perk most appreciated by employees in Canada...

October 8, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Government involvement in providing health care to the uninsured ranks atop a list of critical workplace issues, according to human resource practitioners.

October 8, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - After a year of pursuing misbehaving mutual funds firms, New York's Attorney General may have switched his sights to an even more sinister...

October 8, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's job-creation machine was weaker than expected in September as the unemployment rate held steady, the government reported.