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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...

April 9, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Having weathered one immediate plan sponsor issue - pension relief - the U.S. Senate now appears ready to step back and focus on...

April 9, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Time limits governing how long employees have to file benefits claims suits under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) should be governed...

April 9, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Low levels of literacy might have a significant impact on the ability for plan participants to understand the health-care information being presented to...

April 9, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Illinois business leaders are up in arms over a new state law banning proposed U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) overtime rules except for...

April 9, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A man charged with illegally recording a secretary's keystrokes to gain access to an executive's passwords has pleaded not guilty.

April 9, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The United Nations General Assembly is now apparently engaged in a battle of wills with Secretary-General Kofi Annan over Annan's authority to grant...

September 16, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The board of the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) is considering restricting investments in companies that take over government services, which could...

September 16, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Increasing competition and reduced turnover among consulting firms is leading many to expand their core business and explore new markets.

September 16, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The drumbeat of calls for the resignation of beleaguered New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Chairman Richard Grasso got significantly louder Tuesday as leaders...

April 9, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors have a new resource to peruse for information about Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) from the U.S. Treasury Department.

April 9, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A third-party administrator (TPA) for a Tennessee self-funded group health plan can be held liable for a Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)...

April 9, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - If federal officials don't respond to a state of Illinois request to be allowed to reimport cheaper prescription drugs from Canada within six...

April 8, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The number of unemployed workers lining up for first-time jobless benefits plunged to the lowest level since early 2001, the government said.

April 8, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As the equity markets swooned in March, 401(k) participants showed transfer activity toward fixed-income investment options.

April 8, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The closely watched pension funding bill ploughed through the United States Senate Thursday with a strong 78 to 19 vote to approve the...

April 8, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has upheld a $35,050 penalty assessed against a retirement plan that didn't respond to a beneficiary's request for plan...

August 4, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The funded status of large company pension plans improved to an average of 88% in 2003, from 82% the year before.