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November 12, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Forget carpooling. If you want employees to feel more relaxed and believe they are having a positive impact on the environment while exercising...

December 23, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - ERISA does not prohibit an employer insurance plan from collecting more than $50,000 mistakenly paid to a woman injured in a car accident.

November 12, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Generation X women are apparently taking an earlier and more proactive approach than their Baby Boomer counterparts.

December 23, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Colorado man received an18 month prison sentence after being found guilty of embezzling more than $1.7 million from the International Longshoreman's Association...

November 12, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nearly four out of 10 (38%) Americans under age 65, and 68% of those with low incomes, had no health insurance at some...

December 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - British companies are facing an even more stringent measure of their pension liabilities that could raise the estimates of the nation's retirement savings...

December 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com)—Alliance Capital Management Holding LP is in talks with the New York attorney general's office to cut its annual fees, among the highest in the...

December 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com)-Manpower Inc., a workforce management services company, announced plans to acquire Right Management Consultants Inc., a career transition and organizational consulting provider, for approximately $488...

December 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The stampede of Putnam Investments' clients heading for the doors continued today with word that the Walt Disney Co. is dropping the sole...

December 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Several weeks after its CEO announced his unexpected resignation, Delta Air Lines said that it is strengthening some of its corporate governance measures...

December 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com)—Massachusetts Financial Services Co. (MFS) Investments, who has said it is policing market timing, apparently missed 11 funds now under scrutiny because the company determined...

December 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Securities and Exchange Commission has slapped civil fraud charges on fund manager Heartland Advisors, Inc., and 13 others in connection with...

November 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has raised a red flag about the potential downside to Congress waiving special rules designed to speed...

November 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Governor Tim Pawlenty has ordered a sweeping investigation of trading practices at Minnesota mutual funds as well as a review of state investments...

November 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Failing to recommend hedging strategies to participants in Microsoft's Employee Stock Option Plan has landed Merrill Lynch in the middle of a participant...

November 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - CIGNA Corp.'s Retirement & Investment Services division has replaced Putnam Investments as the institutional investment manager for the firm's International Growth/ Putnam Fund...

November 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Defined benefit companies got a bit of a reprieve Tuesday from the nation's accounting rulemaking body with a decision that they can keep...

November 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The ever-escalating cost for prescription drugs has some companies looking for alternative drug programs to roll out to employees.

November 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Recent signs of life from the long-slumbering domestic economy aside, a dark cloud of pessimism continues to hang over many workers, according to...

November 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Department of Labor (DoL) Secretary Elaine Chao has released a new public service announcement reminding employers that they have to reinstate mobilized...