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August 26, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Tumbling markets and rising heathcare costs may finally be sinking in to participants, according to a new survey.

August 2, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Morgan Stanley has agreed to pay $200,000 and be more vigilant about the handling of customer accounts as part of a deal with...

August 26, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Principal Financial could be over with the "down under" pension market, with the sale of its Australian BT Financial unit.

August 2, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Due to manager performance and new capital inflows, the hedge fund industry grew 34% in the past year.

August 2, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) has provided guidance on how state and local governments should account for retiree nonpension benefits.

August 2, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mutual fund group Franklin Advisers Inc. will pay $50 million to settle charges that it allowed market timing of its funds' shares, the...

August 26, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors looking for a way to accommodate high-income employees might want to consider a newly unveiled program.

August 26, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Benefit Partners, LLC, has become the latest member of a working group of thirty-three independent benefit-planning firms.

August 26, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Payroll and human resource administrators have a new place to point workers who want more detailed information about their paycheck.

August 26, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court found that a single word - "for" - rendered a policy ambiguous enough to overcome a preexisting condition clause.

August 26, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The federal government's pension insurer has just taken over responsibility for six pension plans - and for a change, they don't appear to...

August 26, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Legislation that would establish a registration process for 403(b) program vendors in California has cleared another hurdle.

August 14, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) Board of Administration member Robert Carlson has been selected to serve another four-year term.

July 26, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Massachusetts employers could be held criminally responsible for knowingly exposing children to the threat of abuse at the hands of their employees.

July 26, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Evidence that an employer routinely provided each new worker with a summary plan description (SPD) was enough to overcome a worker's claim that...

July 26, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two of the six plaintiffs in one of the largest sexual harassment suits in US history have decided to call it a day.

July 26, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Investors have a new way to buy bonds, with today's launch of the first fixed income exchange traded funds.

July 26, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Chief financial officers (CFO) are apparently "hunkered down" for the duration, according to a new survey.

July 26, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As a growing number of firms weigh in on the issue of expensing options, there appear to be widely diverging notions of the...

July 26, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - California Treasurer Phil Angelides, who sits on the boards of two of the largest pension funds in the nation, wants to pull state...