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July 1, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Equity REITs bested the S&P 500 during the first two quarters of 2003 with a 14.4% return, compared to the S&P's 11.8% first-half...

January 31, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.COM)-A senior economist at the Federal Reserve Board of Dallas is calling for privatizing social security, but the former CEO of the Federal Retirement Thrift...

July 1, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More than six out of 10 Americans say they know someone who has been laid off or fired recently, the highest percentage since...

January 31, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Vanguard has taken fee disclosure to a new level, offering the industry's first All-In Fee Report for plan sponsors.

July 1, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While a can of Spam will run you $1 at the local supermarket, the annual per employee cost to your company is approximately...

January 7, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor's Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration (PWBA) is looking for input on the development of "safe harbors" for plan administrators...

January 7, 2003, (PLANSPONSOR.com) - President Bush's economic stimulus package is likely to have some interesting consequences for plan sponsors and institutional investors.

January 7, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two prominent House Republicans say they will try again to get the Pension Security Act reform bill through both houses of the new...

January 7, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The new Republican-controlled US Senate has extended unemployment benefits for about 750,000 laid off workers.

July 1, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Small and midsized businesses using "off-the-shelf" retirement plan documents have been reminded by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that those plans need to...

July 1, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm is expected to approve legislation placing limits on how high insurers can raise premiums when employees at small firms...

June 30, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A supervisor at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has been stripped of her duties for one year and suspended without pay for 45...

June 30, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Health care spending per person in the United States rose to 13.9% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), a spike that only widened...

June 30, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The federal anti-discrimination agency has charged in a federal court lawsuit that a Tennessee elevator factory owned by a German company discriminated against...

June 30, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - DailyAccess has added the first Guaranteed Investment Contract (GIC) to its platform, to offer participants a guaranteed return on investments.

June 30, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors interested in jazzing up their investment education lineup may want to check out the latest offerings from Transamerica Retirement Services.

June 30, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - MSCI and Société Générale subsidiary Lyxor Asset Management have announced an agreement to jointly launch an investable hedge fund index.

June 30, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An insurer is still liable for employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) fiduciary breach claims, even though the insurer failed to list the plan...

June 30, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Internal Revenue Service officials have ruled out using the aggregate entry age normal funding method as a "reasonable" option under the Internal...

June 30, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California Supreme Court handed an ex-Intel worker a victory in his six-year legal dispute with the technology giant over 30,000 e-mails he...