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May 5, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and Department of the Treasury have released the third quarterly update to the 2003-2004 Priority Guidance Plan.

May 29, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Walker MacRae is partnering with The Bay Ridge Group, an Endwell, New York recordkeeper, to offer qualified plan services and investment products to...

May 5, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Chief Financial Officers (CFO) said their greatest challenge is cost reduction, yet very few feel they have reduced overhead costs as much as...

May 29, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Barclays, the British financial services giant, inched closer to getting the green light to sell seven exchange-traded funds (ETF) tracking fixed-income indices.

April 29, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mellon Financial Corporation has agreed to acquire a Cleveland investment management firm serving retirement firms, non-profit organization, and high net worth clients.

May 4, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Canadian institutional investors including corporate defined benefit pension plans were ahead by 3.9% during the first quarter of 2004, according to a news...

April 29, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As expected, on Friday Walter Hewlett, the son of one of the founders of Hewlett-Packard, lost his seat on the company's board of...

May 4, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mutual fund assets worldwide were up 9% in the fourth quarter of 2003.

April 5, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's accounting rulemakers may have reached closure on the subject, but controversy regarding the impact of expensing stock options continues unabated.

May 4, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While U.S. Federal Reserve officials on Tuesday opted to keep interest rates at 46-year lows, they signaled they may be taking a different...

April 5, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A recent report on the state of many of the nation's public pension funds seems likely to "misinform and confuse, rather than enlighten,"...

May 4, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Participant retirement education programs are failing to change participant behavior, and that could have dire consequences, according to one industry expert.

April 5, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employees of the scandal-plagued Putnam Investments violated the firm's policies through "the payment of Putnam corporate expenses" involving Putnam-administered retirement plans, several Putnam...

May 4, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The National Association of Securities Dealers' (NASD) Investor Education Foundation is offering grants to non-profit groups and researchers interested in providing investors with...

April 5, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Janus Capital Group's Executive Vice President, Institutional Services has agreed to take a leave of absence.

May 4, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More companies are conducting performance evaluations annually.

April 5, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Robust stock market gains in 2003 have helped 18 companies in the S&P 500 move their defined benefit plans from underfunded to overfunded.

May 4, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Most organizations do not have plans to offshore jobs in the next 12 months.

April 5, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An ex-Bank of America broker who was the first to be arrested in the ongoing state of New York mutual fund trading probe...

May 4, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Oregon Public Employees Retirement System (PERS) has named Paul Cleary as its next executive director.