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September 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Independent 529 Plan, a Section 529 college savings plan set up specifically for private colleges, has opened its door to public contributions.

September 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Institutional investors can now completely outsource their proxy voting process as a result of a newly announced partnership.

September 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A group of pharmacy-benefit managers (PBM) plan to file a lawsuit in Maine in an effort to block disclosure legislation from going into...

September 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The group of four major pharmacy benefit managers (PBM) is about to become three with the announced purchase of Advance PCS by Caremark...

September 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Human Resource professionals have a new method of communicating the value of pay and benefits programs to employees from Authoria Inc.

September 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors have not given up on 401(k) participation yet, as many lure participants with a new siren's song of improved diversification, retained...

March 21, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - PayMaxx, Inc., a payroll processing company, has partnered with Fast401k, to offer PayMaxx clients an online 401(k) product.

March 21, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors who are clients of Nationwide Financial Services' The BEST OF AMERICA retirement program will soon be able to provide participants an...

February 21, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The investment committee of the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) has voted to pull its investment from countries that do not meet...

September 2, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Participants in a Charles Schwab Corporate Services' bundled defined contribution plan now have a personal rate of return tool at their disposal.

February 21, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has decided to allow Enron workers access to financial documents that already have been provided to congressional investigators.

September 2, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Principal Financial Group has released a new Executive Nonqualified Defined Benefit Plan.

February 21, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A second company stock-based lawsuit has been filed against newly bankrupt Global Crossing.

September 2, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal officials have taken the trustees of seven union pension and health plans in Ohio and Minnesota to court for imprudently investing plan...

February 21, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Conseco Inc has agreed to pay $120 million to settle a class action lawsuit led by two firefighters' pension funds in which the...

September 2, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal Labor Department regulators have proposed to narrow restrictions on transactions with parties in interest who can invest a plan's assets in a...

February 21, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nationwide Financial and Sun Trust Banks will partner to provide retirement plans to SunTrust's small business and commercial clients, the companies announced.

February 21, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - CIBC Mellon has released a new version of its Pensioner Information Network (PIN) software program, which company officials say is more streamlined and...

September 2, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The level of loyalty that employees in the US have toward their employer continues to be low, as two-thirds said they do not...

September 2, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Preliminary results show plan sponsors can expect another year of double-digit health-care cost increases in 2004, although the coming year's bite is not...