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July 29, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Standard Insurance Company has upgraded its Retirement Planning Center Web site for participants with a series of enhancements.

July 29, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Preservation and Savings Expansion Act will have to wait until after the August congressional recess to learn its fate.

July 29, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A plan participant who filed a fiduciary breach suit against a financial advisor isn't bound by a mandatory arbitration provision of an agreement...

July 29, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Approximately a third of corporate financial professionals are now being asked to "subcertify" data used in Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reports, as...

July 29, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Assets in exchange-traded funds (ETF) rose to $121.57 billion in June from $118.44 billion the previous month.

July 29, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Lipper, already well known for its matrix-based classifications for domestic mutual funds, is bringing that same discipline to international and global funds open...

July 29, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has filed an objection in WorldCom Inc.'s bankruptcy proceeding and reorganization plan, requesting the company continue to...

July 29, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Seven out of 10 multinational companies surveyed have employees in "high risk" areas, yet 40% have not adopted a formal evacuation or removal...

July 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A company did not breach a contract with retired employees by terminating an unvested postretirement life insurance benefit.

July 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A class action suit filed by former employees that allege executive mismanagement of the company devalued the employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) does...

July 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - PlusFunds Group Inc. has introduced a new share class for tracking the nine individual strategies comprising the S&P Hedge Fund Index.

July 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Banc of America Capital Management and PIMCO Advisor 529 products are the newest addition to ADP Employer Services' 529 payroll deduction platform.

July 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors with questions about how to properly fill out Form 5500 have another product to consider.

July 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Participants in plans at Manulife now have a new investor education program offering tactics on setting and achieving financial goals.

July 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - BSW Benefit Plans Plus, LLC (BPP) has rolled out a new retirement solution tailored for business owners with no employees other than a...

July 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Cuts in health-care benefits by the School Employees Retirement System of Ohio (SERS) have led to a lawsuit from the Ohio Association of...

July 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Canadian employees can expect to dig a little deeper in their pockets to pay for benefits over the next three years as fewer...

July 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Worker confidence in the country's economy and political leadership had plummeted to six year lows as almost one in five American workers has...

July 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Senior executives are split in their evaluation of their human resource (HR) departments - with nearly half dissatisfied or neutral, and the rest...

July 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Buoyed by strong equity returns and fixed income gains, the median master trust in the Independent Consultants Cooperative (ICC) universe - made up...