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October 29, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - ING DIRECT has introduced Planet Orange, a program to assist in teaching children personal finance.

October 17, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Money management firm Thompson Plumb and Associates will be splitting its $2.6-billion book of business in two.

October 29, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - ADP Claims Services Group has launched free training for all of its products.

October 17, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A day after his former vice chairman pleaded guilty to a felony for trying to cover up improper mutual fund trading, Fred Alger...

October 29, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mid-size business executives who think insurance terminology sounds too much like Greek, might get some help from a new Web site.

October 5, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Bear Stearns Asset Management (BSAM) has agreed to acquire the fixed income portfolio management team of TimesSquare Capital, the Cigna-owned investment manager, BSAM...

October 29, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Total Administrative Services Corporation (TASC) has released FlexSystem, a Section 125 Cafeteria Plan designed to offer employers more healthcare options.

October 5, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Almost a year after firing the scandal-plagued Putnam Investments, the Massachusetts pension fund board on Tuesday tapped Putnam to manage $250 million in...

October 29, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Bank of America shareholders will get a new say in executive severance packages.

October 5, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Pennsylvania state court judge is expected to rule Wednesday in a class action lawsuit in which 12,000 City of Philadelphia employees charged...

October 29, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Wausau Benefits will acquire the Des Moines-based retiree benefits administration operations of Marsh, Inc., a division of Marsh & McLennan Companies.

October 29, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Deutsche Bank continued trying to jettison its non-core businesses with word that the giant German bank has worked out a deal to sell...

May 10, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - After opening 2004 in favor of liabilities, April saw a shift in the asset/liability measure in favor of assets.

October 29, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With a bankruptcy filing looming, an independent fiduciary for United Airlines employee stock ownership plan has (ESOP) started dumping stock in United's parent...

May 10, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Persnickety investors concerned about a possible rise in interest rates led hedge funds 0.78% lower in April.

October 29, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Declining assets in stock funds are producing a hike in mutual fund management fees, according to a new Lipper report.

May 10, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two new employer coalitions have formed to combine their collective health-care buying clout to affect change in the ever-escalating health-care costs.

October 29, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - AMR Corp., parent company to American Airlines, revealed it is considering selling its investment company as the ailing air carrier tries to bolster...

May 10, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Uninsured Americans will incur $41 billion in uncompensated health-care treatment in 2004.

October 17, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Unilever UK Chairman Richard Greenhalgh is asking the United Kingdom's (UK) government to rethink plans of forming a Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation-esque entity...