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July 9, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The United States House of Representatives has passed a bill to guarantee retired federal workers the same prescription drug benefits as current federal...

July 9, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Even though an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) kept its company stock holdings while the stock fell in value, the ESOP fiduciary didn't...

July 9, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Individual members of a company's benefits committee may be held liable for fiduciary breach, by failing to monitor stock investments in a 401(k)...

July 9, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Wilmington Trust announced that its stable value fund has joined the National Securities Clearing Corporation's (NSCC) FundSERV platform.

July 9, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Russell has completed the annual reconstitution of its 21 unmanaged US stock indexes, in a shift that saw an 11% decline in the...

July 9, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The employment bloodletting among US high-tech firms appears to have eased for now with announced job cuts during the first half of the...

July 9, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Actively managed equity mutual funds and their corresponding Standard & Poor's indices rounded the final turn in the second quarter of 2003 in...

July 9, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Five former Polaroid employees have sued the company, claiming that Polaroid violated ERISA by severing their long-term disability benefits last year.

July 9, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US life sciences companies have continued to compensate senior managers for delivering on their promises by linking compensation to theirs and the firm's...

July 9, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Board members of the Teachers Retirement System of Louisiana (TRSL) have sacked the fund's director/chief executive officer for its poor investment performance and...

September 19, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Participants interested in a financial planning roadmap of all their assets including their retirement plan may want to turn to ING for help.

July 9, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Peter Fisher, the US Treasury Department's undersecretary for domestic finance who helped manage the administration's position on phasing out the 30-Year Treasury bond,...

September 18, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Assets held by the world's largest 300 pension funds fell by 12% between 2000 and 2001.

September 18, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US mutual fund investors found religion in great numbers in recent years, according to a poll.

September 19, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Alabama's public employee pension plan has made a bid for a piece of a restructured US Airways.

August 7, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The San Diego City Council Rules committee has unanimously approved plans for a nine-member pension reform commission to study the San Diego City...

August 7, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The United States fixed-income trading market showed significant change in 2003, as traders look for more from their dealers.

August 7, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More than 80% of companies that are employee-owned through an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) outperformed the broader market indices in 2002.

August 19, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Bush administration has taken steps to close down a tax shelter involving undervaluation of taxable policy benefits under split-dollar life insurance arrangements.

July 8, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Corporate Web sites are no stranger to organizational mission statements and commercial history books, but employee compensation and benefit information represents the brave...