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April 12, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - U.S. Senator Charles Grassley (R - Iowa) has introduced legislation making the reimportation of prescription drugs from Canada legal for United States-based consumers.

April 12, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors that work with advisors could soon reap the benefits of a new product offering from the Principal Financial Group.

April 12, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Bank of New York (BoNY) has beefed up the reporting capabilities available to plan sponsor clients to allow them to more easily...

November 4, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Luzerne County Retirement Board officials have announced that they will drop Wells Real Estate Investment Trust Inc. from a racketeering lawsuit brought against...

November 4, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fremont Investment Advisors (FIA) has settled state and federal fund market timing and late trading allegations as part of a $4.14-million pact, regulators...

October 4, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Oracle Corp. has launched its legal attack on PeopleSoft Inc.'s takeover defenses, claiming, that among other things, the former CEO mislead securities analysts...

October 4, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New York City Comptroller William Thompson has promised up to $110 million in city pension money to a private equity fund headed by...

October 4, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Kaiser Aluminum has been notified by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) that the insurer for private-sector defined benefit retirement plans will assume...

October 16, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Henderson Global Investors, a London-based investment house owned by AMP, of Australia, walked away with a win at a UK contest to find...

October 16, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An 840-basis point spread between the top- and bottom-performing strategies thus far in 2003 has placed value managers in a world of hurt...

October 28, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Van Kampen Investments is offering a new "R" class of shares for four of its funds to help broaden retirement plan access.

October 28, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - 529 plans are increasingly desired by employees, but not always available in the workplace, according to a new survey.

October 28, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Defined benefit plan sponsors and their corporate finance staff who are trying to find easier ways to keep track of their plan's streams...

October 28, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - State Street Corporation will now offer its FX Connect foreign exchange trading system as a component of SunGard's corporate treasury workstation products.

October 28, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - PMA Insurance Group has partnered with PMSI, a subsidiary of AmeriSource Bergen, to develop a new on-line pharmacy benefits management program.

October 28, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Bank of New York (BNY) on Monday has announced the acquisition of an alternative investment fund administrator and the launch of depositary...

October 28, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Massachusetts' $25 billion state pension fund, Pension Reserves Investment Trust (PRIT), has refused to comply with an order to disclose its venture capital...

October 28, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The number of multinational companies running their pension plans with a strict top-down approach rather than local decentralization declined from 20% to 11%...

October 28, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - BenefitStreet, Inc., a Ramon, California developer of retirement plan daily valuation technology delivered through investment advisors, has agreed to acquire EAInvest Securities, Inc,...

October 4, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Where many investors know social responsible mutual funds as those that strictly invest in enterprises such as environmentally friendly companies, the investing approach...