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July 7, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors have a new dental insurance plan to chew on.

July 31, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - One of the industry's leading transition management consultants is said to be in the middle of acquisition talks.

July 7, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Bank of New York (BoNY) has launched a series of improvements for its INFORM Web site for institutional and corporate clients.

July 31, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Franklin Templeton Investments announced that it had merged its Strategic Alliances and Defined Contribution Services areas to form the Retirement Division of Franklin...

July 6, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - MetLife has released its latest Life Advice brochure offering guidance to participants on the use of income annuities for preserving retirement savings.

June 7, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - NCR Corp has rung up the end of its corporate defined benefit plan, choosing instead to offer only 401(k) plans to about 9,200...

July 6, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled limits on medical malpractice wrongful death awards are constitutional.

July 6, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Under an agreement struck between the union representing employees and Dow Jones & Co. Inc, workers will have to start paying for health-care...

July 6, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Virginia employers facing the prospect of a new law forcing them to give workers Saturdays or Sundays off as a "day of rest"...

July 6, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US diversified mutual funds turned in a 0.84% return in the second quarter.

July 6, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Announced June job reductions fell 12% to 64,343 in June, the lowest figure since the 59,715 seen in June 2003, an outplacement firm...

June 19, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has determined that stock-option expensing methods will be the same for both employee and non-employee workers.

June 19, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While giving consumers the maximum amount of choice might seem like an effective strategy, a new research report suggests doing that in defined...

June 19, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fitch Ratings Corp. has jumped on the General Motors Corporation (GM) senior unsecured debt downgrade wagon, lowering the issues to BBB+ from A-...

June 19, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Calvert, manager of a family of socially responsible mutual funds, has updated its proxy voting guidelines with a "sustainable governance" model.

June 19, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Battle weary global money managers are turning their attention, and more importantly assets, toward alternative investments in hopes of relighting the positive return...

June 19, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Officials at the problem-plagued Thrift Savings Plan may well be thinking, "What did I do to deserve this?"

July 6, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Framingham, Massachusetts technology company has released the latest version of its compensation management program as well as a program to manage organization...

May 19, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Successful corporate restructuring and attainment of financial goals in the early 1990's led to greater total returns to shareholders (TRS) over the trailing...

May 19, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The long-ailing US steel industry has claimed yet another victim as Weirton Steel Corp. filed for federal bankruptcy protection.