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February 26, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Financial consultants may have an easier time in deciding whether a client would be better off contributing to their state's 529 college savings...

February 2, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Detailed hedge fund data from Hedge Fund Research, Inc. (HFR) will be added to Ibbotson Associate's EnCorr analytical software, according to a press...

February 26, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Users of Workbench, a global markets information system from CIBC Mellon, can now customize their home pages to display information of most interest...

February 2, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - At least one segment of the workforce has apparently been enjoying a post-downturn job bonanza in recent weeks - human resources professionals.

February 14, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More than half (55.7%) of survey participants say they would use the new individual savings options proposed by the Bush Administration - instead...

February 2, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A quarter of human resources professionals admit that their companies are less likely to hire a job candidate if that person is recovering...

February 14, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pension accounting rules should be overhauled, and companies should be required to disclose their pension finances more frequently.

February 2, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com)-Although health care costs are skyrocketing, the money is well spent, with each additional dollar spent on health care services producing health gains valued at...

February 14, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Money managers at the Florida Retirement System (FRS) will have a new investment building block to work with when assembling a portfolio asset...

February 2, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com)-Starting Monday, job applicants using Yahoo!'s HotJobs.com will be able to perform a background check on themselves to make certain the information is correct before...

February 14, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - For the second time in a decade, the US accounting standards board finds itself under intense pressure to back off of a proposal...

January 2, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mirroring activities by colleagues in other states, California Attorney General Bill Lockyer is now investigating whether three California-based mutual funds didn't disclose receiving...

January 2, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Bank of America Corp.'s securities arm revealed Friday that the US Securities and Exchange Commission might take civil action against it - possibly...

January 14, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Vermont Supreme Court found a former wife is entitled to a percentage of her husband's pension at the same time he is...

January 14, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - This is not an opportune time to be a Wall Street money manager with a US state pension fund as a client.

January 14, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Kaiser Aluminum Corp., has turned to the courts in an effort to block the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. (PBGC) from filing liens against...

January 14, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Toronto company is out with a product designed to help investment advisors and their clients in Canada develop the client's lifestyle plan...

January 14, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fidelity Investments has announced the release of a new employee education program, designed to provide individual plan participant forecasting and modeling scenarios.

January 14, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Hiring managers interested in bringing on recent college graduates may want to check out a new recruiting Web site.

January 14, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - BISYS said that it has been selected by Ohio-based National City Corporation to support the firm's balance forward retirement plans. Those plans are...