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December 27, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A pension plan revision that excludes certain retirees from a potential increase is invalid due to its adoption outside the employer's own plan...

December 3, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two TIAA-CREF trustees have stepped down under Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) pressure over allegations they violated SEC rules regarding auditors doing business...

December 15, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Published reports indicate that settlement talks between Alliance Capital Management and regulators are intensifying - and a settlement could come as early as...

December 3, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Five of the nation's largest public pension funds have filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the US Supreme Court arguing that a level of...

December 15, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The widening mutual fund scandal has led the nation's tenth largest state pension plan to place Invesco on its watchlist.

March 12, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - National Employee Benefit Companies (NEBCO) has created a pharmacy benefits management (PBM) division.

December 15, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As part of its continuing move to stay on the same regulatory page as its international counterparts, the US accounting rulemaker Monday issued...

March 12, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Aetna has launched a new approach to coordinating and delivering benefits across medical, disability, behavioral health and pharmacy plans.

December 15, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Board of Trustees of the Teachers' Retirement System (TRS) of the state of Illinois has added INVESCO Global Management and MFS Institutional...

March 12, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Georgia human resources training company has unveiled a series of new programs for HR, benefits, and compensation professionals offered through its Internet...

December 15, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A mutual fund trade group on Monday called on securities regulators to crack down on the use of soft dollars and directed brokerage...

March 12, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Merrill Lynch & Co is launching a new hedge fund client initiative and has appointed one of its top hedge fund sales executives...

March 12, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Citigroup's Global Banking Group, a division of the conglomerate's Global Corporate and Investment Banking Group, has announced a slew of executive placements.

March 12, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs) can result in lower health care spending, but only if the plan changes employee behavior.

March 12, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Some employers' health-care cost-cutting efforts appear to be working - at least when it comes to the cost of prescription drugs, a new...

March 12, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Job hoppers apparently aren't the favorite of the office, according to a new survey.

March 12, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Preliminary reports show the MSCI Hedge Fund Composite Index posting an increase for February of 1.5%, a slight drop from the 1.6% increase...

December 27, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -Mallinckrodt Inc said its retirement plan's assets are down 28.0% in fiscal year 2002, with a net investment loss of $87.0 million, according to...

December 27, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pilots for United Airlines have proposed issuing millions of new shares of United's parent company, UAL, into the employee stock purchase plan (ESOP),...

November 27, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - eSecLending, LLC, a securities lending manager, will provide securities lending services for portfolios in the Advisors' Inner Circle Fund family (AIC).