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July 17, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Media giant Knight Ridder has eased restrictions on participants' handling of company stock in their 401(k) accounts.

May 7, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Unitized Managed Accounts are now directly available to financial advisors, TRUSTlynx announced.

July 17, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Connecticut jury has convicted Triumph Capital Group and its general counsel on eight federal charges of bribery in connection kickbacks to former...

May 7, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Companies looking for ways to improve their workers nutritional habits have a new Web-based tool at their disposal.

July 17, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US investor-owned power and gas companies should be able to weather the pension storm bedeviling most employers these days, according to a new...

May 7, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The long slumbering U.S. job production machine continued its trek back to life in April with the second straight month of super-healthy employment...

July 17, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The newest addition to the investment advisory service world has opened its doors for business - Sustainable Growth Advisers, LP.

May 7, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) said worker productivity rose at a 3.5% annual rate in the first quarter of 2004.

May 6, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The number of jobless Americans applying for first-time unemployment benefits continued dropping last week to its lowest level since 2000.

May 6, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An average of three employers per day added domestic partner health insurance benefits to gay and lesbian workers in 2003.

May 6, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The next generation of female executives overwhelmingly plan on returning to the workforce after having children and most agree changes will need to...

May 6, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A third of working mothers are not happy with their work/life balance and nearly one-in-five state their employers are intolerant of working shorter...

May 6, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Standard Insurance Company has unveiled Participant Reports Online (PRO), a service providing Web access to retirement plan participant information.

May 6, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fidelity Investments' Stock Plan Services group unveiled full-service, online stock appreciation rights and phantom stock administrative, recordkeeping and participant services, the company announced.

May 6, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com)—Morgan Stanley announced BISYS will provide support and turnkey services to 401(k) plans sold by Morgan Stanley's financial advisors.

May 6, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An outside fiduciary will be appointed to run a California union benefit fund, which authorities say spent millions of dollars of fund assets...

May 6, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's private pension insurer announced Thursday that it was cracking down on sponsors of underfunded pensions who don't properly inform their participants...

June 17, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Lehman Brothers US Aggregate Bond Index will be sans smaller bonds issues as part of sweeping changes scheduled for October 1 to...

June 17, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - CalPERS is declaring war on abusive corporate executive compensation plans and has vowed to hold compensation committees more accountable for their actions.

June 17, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal regulators need to study the benefits of requiring mutual funds to more fully disclose their fees including their use of soft-dollar payments,...