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September 13, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - SunGard Employee Benefit Systems has released an online interface that will act as a front end to SunGard's various applications for retirement services.

September 13, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Those looking to invest in a 529 college savings plan now have a new reference tool, courtesy of the financial services regulator NASD.

November 9, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Embattled Marsh & McLennan Cos. on Tuesday unveiled plans to lay off 3,000 workers and announced a tentative $40 million settlement involving its...

November 9, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - California State Treasurer Phil Angelides has called on the state's two giant public pension plans to prod four companies to reform their executive...

November 9, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Microsoft Corp. shareholders on Tuesday approved a special $32-billion dividend ($3 per share) to compensate employees for the projected share decrease when the...

November 21, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Ohio's five retirement systems sent a joint letter to Governor Bob Taft, Senate President Doug White, and Speaker of the House Larry Householder...

November 21, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In spite of the sustained shifts in the markets, or perhaps largely as a result, plan sponsors have hung tough with their current...

November 21, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - UAL Corp, the parent company of United Airlines, plans to continue funding its pension obligations, not wanting to shift that burden to the...

November 21, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Former Connecticut State Treasurer Paul Silvester, who plunged the state into a far-reaching pension investment scandal, has been sentenced to serve 28 more...

November 21, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Add Washington State and the City of Milwaukee as the latest pension funds to seek replacements for investments managed by Putnam Investments.

November 21, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pension fund leaders from eight state and local governments and two labor groups have issued a 10-point "call for action" to increase corporate...

November 21, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - If securities regulator NASD gets its way, mutual fund companies will give the same prominence to their funds' expenses as they do when...

November 21, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The beleaguered Putnam Investments continues getting hammered with bad news with word that the giant Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the nation's largest private-sector employer,...

November 9, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has turned away an appeal by a woman who claims her former employer's long-term disability policy carrier was wrong...

November 9, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a controversial move that has upset multiple state unions, the governing council for New Jersey's state pension fund has voted to allocate...

November 9, 2004 (PLANPONSOR.com) - The Bank of New York (BoNY) has admitted that its Pershing LLC unit is being investigated regarding possible market timing and that it...

November 9, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's largest public pension fund is pressuring Royal Dutch/Shell Group, to require external auditing of its oil and gas reserves.

October 21, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's private pension insurer has announced plans to assume responsibility for the pensions of 9,200 workers and retirees of bankrupt Weirton Steel...

October 21, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Many US companies have still not budgeted the proper resources to achieve the required compliance under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, a new survey found.

October 21, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The October reading of the State Street Investor Confidence rose 1.7 points to 104.2 from a revised September level of 102.5.