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May 31, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com)-SAFECO Life & Investments in conjunction with ShareBuilder Securities Corporation, has launched a new 401(k) program which features a self-directed brokerage account

May 31, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court upheld a lower court decision to throw out a suit by a Mississippi health-plan administrator demanding repayment from a...

May 31, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Workers belonging to ERISA-governed HMO plans can't file state-court lawsuits against their health maintenance organizations over rules that participants repay their health-care costs...

May 31, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An alternative dispute resolution program at Halliburton Co. got a boost with a Texas Supreme Court decision affirming an employer's right to force...

May 31, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has breathed new life into a legal battle by a former New Jersey emergency medical technician who claimed he...

May 7, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Efforts by state pension funds and other dissident shareholders to dislodge Safeway chairman Steve Burd from the supermarket company's board have gotten a...

May 7, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has turned its investigative eye toward the mutual fund sales practices at Wachovia Corp.

May 7, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More companies now rely on alliances with corporate partners to meet their strategic business goals - sometimes instead of opting for higher risk...

April 7, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - OppenheimerFunds, Inc. (OFI) has launched a new asset allocation tool.

July 4, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Government regulators are apparently delving deeper into the use of revenue sharing arrangements by 401(k) plans.

April 7, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Faced with a $1.4-bilion deficit in their pension fund, supervisors in San Diego County approved a proposed $400 million bond issue to cover...

April 7, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Oregon pension officials are mad as heck about goings on at supermarket chain Safeway Inc., and - like many of their state pension...

April 7, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Massachusetts state pension system on Tuesday agreed to take a $1.6-billion hedge fund portfolio position despite the amount of fees hedge fund...

April 7, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Continuing the growing trend of corporate governance activism by institutional investors including pension funds, one retirement plan on Tuesday urged MBNA Corp. to...

April 7, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) is forcing asset managers to rethink how they pay their employees with its recent requirement that...

April 7, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com)—The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is investigating trades made at a Baltimore office of Morgan Stanley that recently fired two employees in relation to...

April 7, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Last year was good to the asset levels at defined benefit pension plans of the largest U.S. companies, but even with large gains,...

April 7, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Financial Accounting Standards Board's (FASB) proposal requiring all companies to list stock options as an expense in the income statement has broad...

April 7, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Given market volatility of the last several years, it should not come as a surprise that many investors have become less of a...

March 19, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Financial advisors have a new sales tool kit and solutions module to reference for life insurance funded Section 457 plans.