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November 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Congressional negotiators have reached an agreement that might prevent the Bush administration from finalizing its proposed cash balance pension rules, without taking away...

November 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Equity markets led the way in the third quarter, as confident investors took money away from fixed-income and money market investments to take...

November 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - After reaching their lowest point in nearly two years, first-time claims for unemployment benefits rose 13,000 to 366,000 in the week ended November...

November 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - For most job categories, external hires take from one and a half to two times longer to reach full productivity, compared to those...

November 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Small and mid-sized businesses have a new employee retirement, benefits and worker's compensation service at their disposal.

November 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fidelity Investments has added eight new portfolios to its Freedom Fund lineup.

November 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors looking for a 401(k) plan with no contract strings and no asset-based charges are the target of a new ING 401(k)...

November 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - T. Rowe Price Retirement Plan Services now offers its plan sponsor clients access to the full suite of Morningstar advice services.

November 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has published the maximum guaranteed benefits and the new payment schedule for participants of terminated single-employer pension...

November 12, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Supreme Court will begin hearing arguments today in a case brought by younger workers claiming that taking away their post-retirement benefits...

December 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com)—Only days after formal chargers were filed against Invesco Funds, a division of AMVESCAP PLC, Florida officials dropped its $2 million mutual fund from the...

November 12, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Online education developer Acadient has rolled out its newest product, the Certified Mutual Fund Specialist Program (CMFS).

December 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Financial industry trade groups have hammered out a new agreement focusing on getting more information about agent lenders, in order to guard against...

November 12, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Benefits managers looking for health-coverage alternatives may want to consider a new consumer-driven health plan (CDHP) unveiled by a Baltimore plan provider.

December 23, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Airways has struck tentative union concession deals representing an additional $200 million in wage and benefit cuts that the airline needed to...

November 12, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Citigroup has agreed to transfer Smith Barney's global benchmark index business to Standard & Poor's Index Services.

December 23, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Becton Dickinson & Co, a maker of medical products, has contributed $100 million to its pension plan amid expectations of rising pension costs.

November 12, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - SelectBenefit, Union Bank of California's retirement plan services division, has launched a new IRA rollover option for SelectBenefit plan participants.

December 23, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors scrambling to comply with the new minimum distribution rules for defined benefit plans got an early Christmas present from the Internal...

November 12, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Investors in the state of Alabama's 529 plan who shop until they drop can now save faster for college costs.