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December 12, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Santa had better watch out - at least in Sweden, according to new research.

December 24, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) says group health plans are required to make COBRA coverage available to spouses who lose coverage due to...

December 12, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Aetna is offering a new portfolio of preferred provider organization (PPO) health plans for small businesses in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, DC, to...

December 12, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - About half of the Microsoft Corporation employees eligible to sell their largely worthless underwater stock options took advantage of the plan and generated...

December 12, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Health-care spending growth for privately insured Americans during the first half of 2003 slowed to its lowest level in three years, turning in...

No one can accuse employers participating in a recent survey of being Mr. Scrooge. Knowing that the holiday season can put their workers under boatloads of extra stress,...

December 12, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - If Social Security, employer retirement plans and personal savings indeed represent a "three-legged stool" of retirement income, many Americans risk going into their...

December 12, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Massachusetts Secretary of State William Galvin has charged Prudential Securities with widespread late trading of mutual funds by ignoring former brokers in its...

December 12, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A combination of good returns and large contributions will bring General Motors' US pension plans back to nearly fully funded status by the...

December 12, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As the widespread probe into fund trading abuses continues, one prominent fund company executive is now calling for a central clearinghouse to process...

December 12, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The annuity business has apparently been hit with the same type of improper marketing timing that has kept the fund industry locked in...

December 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Watson Wyatt Worldwide has tapped Ted Chien as global director of group and health care consulting services.

December 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Massachusetts state Senate is turning to the state Supreme Judicial Court to clarify whether a sweeping civil union bill is in line...

November 12, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Microsoft Corp. shareholders have given their approval to the software maker's plan to award restricted stock to employees in lieu of stock options.

November 12, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Trading experience may actually be more of a burden than a help to hedge fund managers since an older manager is less likely...

November 12, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Joining a growing chorus of pension officials concerned about money placed with mutual fund companies caught up in the continuing fund trading scandal,...

November 12, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Assets continue to pour out of the beleaguered Putnam Investments as Nevada officials took back their $400 million and headed for the doors...

November 12, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two-thirds of US religious investors said they would consider cast outing a mutual fund with holdings in one or more companies implicated in...

December 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The number of jobless workers filing for first-time benefits shot up for the second time in a row last week to its highest...

December 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com)—Preliminary reports show the MSCI Hedge Fund Composite Index posting an increase of only 0.7%, a significant drop from the nearly 2% increase during October.