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September 12, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A New Jersey-based communications networks provider is freezing its underfunded US employee pension plan at the end of the year to instead focus...

September 24, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Without a turnaround in the markets, IBM may soon have to dig up $2 billion to $2.3 billion to pour into its pension...

September 12, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - One in three (34%) chief financial officers (CFO) say meeting executive certification and internal control requirement pose the most challenge to Sarbanes-Oxley Act...

September 24, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Finance pros saw a hefty boost in pay packages last year, according to a new survey.

September 12, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Spitzer investigation of hedge and mutual-fund trading misdeeds continues to reverberate through the financial world with one research firm now calling for...

September 24, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Wachovia Corp.'s asset-management unit has agreed to buy a Boston institutional money manager.

September 12, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) is considering whether to maintain its protest against companies employing outside auditors for other services even...

December 9, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nearly half (47%) of human resource professionals are seeing an increase in the number of employees dealing with elder care issues, but only...

December 9, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The city of Boston is apparently jumping on the Canadian prescription drugs bandwagon.

December 9, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers continue to shift more responsibility for funding benefit programs to their employees and the workers aren't very happy about it, according to...

September 24, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal trial court judge has granted attorneys' fees in an ERISA case despite the fact that the fees were higher than those...

December 9, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Faced with an albeit slowly recovering economy, Federal Reserve officials decided Tuesday not to disturb the interest-rate picture

September 24, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Hewitt Associates has teamed up with Medstat, a health-care information unit of The Thomson Corporation, to offer employers a new program to better...

December 9, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new tool from Northern Trust could help institutional investors better monitor their trading costs and gain broader insight into trading practices.

September 24, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Barclays Global Investors (BGI) is planning to add a new emerging markets index offering to its iShares family.

December 9, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US House of Representatives has decided against extending federal unemployment benefits before Congress adjourns for the year.

September 24, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors who adopt Pan-American Life's investment evaluation process will get a partner when it comes to fiduciary liability.

September 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Investors and their financial advisors may not have been as aware as they should have been about the added risks inherent in leveraged...

September 24, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Benefits managers struggling to meet the dictates of the 1996 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) may be interested in a new...

September 12, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Computer maker Hewlett-Packard Co. says mandatory stock option expensing would have slashed its third quarter profits 64%.