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February 3, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The lead portfolio manager of the popular value-oriented Vanguard Windsor Fund will retire at the end of June, the Vanguard Group announced.

March 14, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Gartmore Global Investments (GGI) has acquired an Irvington, New York-based separate accounts manager focusing on growth equity and fixed income products.

February 3, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com)— Pacific Life Insurance Company announced five new Portfolio Optimization Funds, asset allocation "funds of funds," with a multi-manager platform, modeling by Ibbotson Associates, and...

March 14, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Hedge fund investments, while growing at their smallest rate in 19 years, met or exceeded expectations for 82% of their investors.

February 3, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - American Express Financial Corporation is merging American Express Bank and American Express Financial Corporation's fund of hedge funds businesses.

March 26, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Some mutual funds might find themselves in a new performance classification category when Morningstar Inc. overhauls its well-known style box system.

February 3, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com)—The Principal Financial Group unveiled the Principal Reimbursement Arrangement, part of a group medical insurance package aimed at assisting members pay for health care services.

March 26, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While pension returns and funding levels were squeezed by shrinking markets and growing liabilities last year, plan sponsors didn't appear to be rushing...

February 3, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Authorities on Tuesday took into custody a former Canadian Imperial Bank (CIBC) executive whom regulators believe helped arrange $1 billion in financing used...

March 26, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Committee on Investment of Employee Benefit Assets (CIEBA), an affiliate of the Association for Financial Professionals (AFP), has come out in support...

February 3, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As Punxatawny Phil emerged from his burrow this week, the Secretary of Treasury also unveiled, along with President Bush's budget proposal, a new...

March 2, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US House of Representatives Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi (D - California) has signed on to co-sponsor legislation that limits stock option expensing to...

February 3, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's private pension insurer has given plan sponsors and plan administrators in several areas of the country hit by natural disasters an...

March 2, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - To better inform voters on where the candidates stand on Social Security reform, the American Academy of Actuaries has released a guide on...

March 25, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge awarded $75,000 to the lone female employee in a metal parts factory who tried twice to commit suicide because of...

March 2, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -Marks & Spencer, the ailing British food and clothing retailer, is following General Motors' example and putting a £400-million bond issue in the markets...

March 26, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service has taken issue with a ruling that the termination of a post-retirement cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) did not violate ERISA's...

March 2, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The latest financial services firm to feel the steely eyes of federal and state regulators upon it for its mutual fund trading practices...

March 26, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An atmosphere that has found increasing numbers of 401(k) participants willing to take their employer to court for retirement-plan misdeeds had led to...

March 14, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors hoping for some defined benefit relief might have some reason for hope.