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October 29, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Business is "booming" at the nation's pension insurer, but that could spell trouble for the private pension system.

October 29, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Pennsylvania judge has cleared the way for the office manager of a Philadelphia law firm to pursue her lawsuit over allegations she...

October 29, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com)—A hearing has been set for Nov. 4 to examine the allegations in the mutual fund trading scandal and the need for new legislation to...

October 29, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A bill implementing a temporary fix to the problem of replacing the 30-year Treasury bond rate for use in pension plan liability calculation...

October 29, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) facing more challenges on the road ahead, the General Accounting Office (GAO) sees some room for...

October 29, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com)—With a vote of 24 to 15, the House Ways and Means Committee moved the bill HR 2896, the American Jobs Creation Act of 2003,...

October 29, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Winklevoss Technologies has released a desktop tool kit for plan sponsors, investment advisors and consultants to answer "what-if" questions surrounding pension plan disclosure...

October 29, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com)—At the end of the third quarter, $456.29 billion was held in separately managed accounts (SMAs), an improvement of 3% over the second quarter assets...

October 29, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The majority of United States employers are offering a two-day paid holiday around Thanksgiving in 2003, but as budgets get tighter, that number...

October 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Defined benefit clients of New York Life Investment Management LLC (NYLIM) Retirement Plan Services now can also take advantage of a new investment...

October 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Benefits managers have a new consumer-driven health plan (CDHP) to consider from a new partnership of the Guardian Life Insurance Company of America...

October 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Hawthorne, New York company has unveiled a new online program designed to help companies teach their employees about ethics and regulatory compliance...

October 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - MassMutual's Institutional Funds series is set to get a bit bigger with the introduction later this year of eight new mutual funds.

October 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Human resource professionals have a new solution for aggregating employee total compensation data in a single report.

October 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee has scheduled a vote on the Pension Stabilization Act for October 29.

October 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com)—Senator Joseph Lieberman (D-Connecticut) outlined a plan to introduce stronger regulations on mutual funds to safeguard investments of the average middle-class investor, something he says...

October 29, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan determination letters seem to be descending on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in droves, but the IRS appears to be handling the...

October 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - IT paychecks for 2003 continue to be impacted by economic pressures with base pay figures showing a slight increase over 2002 for 63%...

October 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The level of participation in retirement plans dropped to 41.8% of all workers in 2002, after reaching a peak of 44.4% just two...

October 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Aggregating data from eight different compensation surveys, Mercer Human Resource Consulting has launched a new source of pay data for human resource professionals.