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May 6, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Health care spending per person in the United States increased by 6.3% from 1999 to 2000, a spike that only widened the gap...

June 17, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fidelity's flagship Magellan Fund, which is the second largest US fund, is the most popular choice among retirement plan participants, according to a...

May 6, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Some Montana residents currently without health coverage will soon have access to limited insurance restricted to doctors' office visits and generic drugs.

June 29, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) ? You needed a scorecard to keep up with all the amendments, debates and votes in the Senate's continued deliberations on S. 1052, the...

May 6, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) do a better job than other widely available supplemental health insurance plans in protecting Medicare recipients from high out-of-pocket...

June 29, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Before the end of August the Internal Revenue Service says it will publish sample amendments that plan sponsors may adopt or copy to...

May 6, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As outsourcing gained popularity in recent years, large corporations have begun to outsource more of their human resources administration, including payroll and alternative...

June 17, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The number of complaints filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) against the government, fell by around 5% in fiscal year 2001,...

May 6, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - BISYS is offering a new service to broker-dealers and investment companies to monitor their compliance with breakpoint sales regulations.

June 17, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With studies showing an increasing need for companies to rely on experienced retired workers, government officials are asking for suggestions on how they...

May 6, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Franklin Templeton is launching two structured equity strategies that offer institutional investors index-based investing that seeks to limit risk.

June 17, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Maryland's highest court has approved a Montgomery County law extending benefits to domestic partners. The decision was seen as a significant victory for...

May 6, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Charles Schwab Corporate Services has come up with two new software products to help improve retirement plan administration and providing of services to...

June 17, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com)- Standard & Poor's has inked a deal with ProNvest, Inc. to provide educational content delivery to ProNvest's 401(k) clients.

May 6, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - After touching positive territory in the previous quarter, the Russell/Mellon US Master Trust once again slipped into the negative to start 2003 lower.

June 17, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - CIGNA Retirement & Investment Services has added a large-cap value fund and a small-cap growth fund to its retirement-plan offerings.

May 6, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Federal Reserve decided to keep US interest rates at 1961 lows, but warned it stood ready to lower borrowing costs if the...

June 29, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fidelity has added several features to Fidelity e401k, its online retirement plan for small businesses, including the ability to assess 401(k) plan options,...

June 29, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Chief financial officers (CFOs) expect a net 7% increase in the hiring of accounting and finance professionals in the third quarter of 2001,...

June 29, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Diversified Investment Advisors now offers SpeechWorks, interactive speech recognition capabilities to all of its retirement plan participants.