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October 7, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A handful of physicists and astrophysicists have unveiled an alternative investment firm using complex trading models designed to exploit the markets' trading inefficiencies.

October 7, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Van Global Hedge Fund Index showed a 1.2% gain net of fees in September according to preliminary data from Van Hedge Fund...

October 7, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A qualified domestic relations order (QDRO), entered into in good faith, supercedes a beneficiary designation that entitled a pension plan's participant's former wife...

October 6, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Third-quarter job cuts in the technology sector rose over the second quarter of 2003, but year-to-date 2003 totals represented a dramatic decline from...

October 6, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - California Governor Gray Davis signed into law legislation requiring a large portion of the state's employers to provide health care coverage to their...

October 6, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's high court has refused to disturb a state-court ruling allowing a fired Cigna Insurance Co. lawyer to sue the company even...

October 6, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The majority (65%) of small market 401(k) plan sponsors are satisfied with the overall performance of the companies managing their plans.

June 10, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The gap between financial objectives and Generation X's investing behavior has gotten wider over the past year, as 11% of the generation has...

June 10, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Companies in the S&P 500 with underfunded defined benefit plans could require additional contributions in the neighborhood of $36 billion over the next...

October 6, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nearly 2,000 employees of Indianapolis Power & Light Co. (IPALCO) will be allowed to join a class-action case alleging that IPALCO improperly promoted...

October 6, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A lawsuit brought by approximately 2,600 current and former black managers against Sodexho Marriot Services can continue, the Supreme Court ruled today.

October 6, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Dow Jones Indexes will launch a regional blue-chip index covering Arab nations in the Middle East, the company announced.

May 22, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The $13.5 million in a rabbi trust set up by Outboard Marine Corp. rightfully belongs in Outboard's bankruptcy estate to help pay creditors,...

May 22, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - CI Fund Management Inc, (CI) a Toronto asset manager, has agreed to acquire two mutual fund subsidiaries from Sun Life Financial Services of...

May 22, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Boston asset-management firm will acquire a majority stock interest in Third Avenue Management, a New York investment manager whose affiliates advise the...

May 22, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors can earn a professional designation upon completing courses and passing a competency exam on investment fiduciary responsibility.

May 22, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Hartford Life has enhanced its multi-manager 401(k) program for smaller employers.

April 22, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More than a third (38%) of large employers are making matching contributions in company stock, and the vast majority (86%) impose some type...

April 22, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com)-Pittsburgh-based bank PNC Financial may have been the subject of a $50 million fraud, according to a report in the Financial Times.

April 22, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Massachusetts' top securities regulator has launched an investigation to determine whether Polaroid forced employees to buy now-worthless stock to thwart a hostile takeover...