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April 21, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US is heading towards adoption of UK-style pension accounting as part of efforts to achieve convergence between US and international financial reporting...

April 9, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Putnam Investments has not only reached a record breaking settlement in terms of severity of the monetary fine in relation to actual investor...

April 9, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Former Goldman Sachs & Co economist John Youngdahl has been sentenced to nearly three years in prison for his part in the leak...

March 21, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Negotiations between US Airways and its pilots' union on an underfunded pension plan have reached a stalemate.

September 3, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Questions surrounding whether or not an employee received proper COBRA notification demands a former worker's case against his former employer and the health...

September 3, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), in an informal letter to an employer, is asserting that the American Disability Act (ADA) prohibits employers...

September 3, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A poll of female corporate leaders finds them overwhelmingly optimistic about the future with predictions of future business growth.

September 3, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Despite government figures to the contrary, more American workers thought that fewer jobs are available and the economy grew weaker in August, according...

September 3, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Labor Department (DoL) officials Friday painted a more upbeat picture of the domestic job scene with word that companies added 144,000 workers...

March 9, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Less than half of pension fund trustees in the United Kingdom (UK) have assessed the performance of their investment advisers and even few...

March 9, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Four in 10 US multinational companies will have to do some major procedural housecleaning in order to meet new US Securities and Exchange...

March 9, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) has been awarded a $50 billion dollar equity securities lending contract by the California Public Employees' Retirement System...

March 9, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Coca-Cola is urging shareholders to vote yes to a resolution on this year's proxy to study the economic effect of the HIV/AIDS pandemic...

March 9, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two state pension funds are taking a long look at their consulting contracts with Wilshire Associates in the wake of investment advisory firm's...

March 21, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A jury will decide if an employer's failure to provide a smoke-free work environment, if even in the short-term, caused an asthma aggravating...

March 21, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The practice of forcing employees nearing retirement to become independent contractors and lose their eligibility to receive full pension benefits may become a...

March 21, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US House of Representatives has approved a sweeping reform of US bankruptcy laws that includes protection for employee retirement funds.

March 21, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Five weeks after a bipartisan coalition in the US House of Representatives introduced a bill to create association health plans (AHPs), sponsors say...

February 21, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A much ballyhooed but often delayed effort for a new computer system to bring daily valuation to the federal employees' retirement savings plan...

February 21, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A recent decision by the California Supreme Court has redefined an employment disability.