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May 1, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With stock option expensing on its way to becoming mandatory, nearly half of life sciences industry (LSI) companies will shift to a compensation...

May 1, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Ralph Wanger, lead manager of the $5.8-billion Liberty Acorn Fund and Leah Zell, lead manager for the $1.2-billion Liberty Acorn International Fund are...

May 1, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal legislation has been introduced to provide self-employed Americans better access to healthcare through the elimination of self-employment taxes on health insurance premiums.

May 1, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is updating access, outreach and enforcement services to the limited English proficient (LEP) employer and employee...

May 1, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Compensation policies for money managers at California's two large public pension plans are up for "structural changes" following a court ruling.

January 29, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Over thirty lawsuits have been filed to date challenging the controversial Occupational Safety and Health Administration ergonomics standard.

January 17, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mutual fund company The Vanguard Group is making things easier for investors to redistribute money out of an index fund.

January 29, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Small and medium size plan sponsors can now tap into Emplanet's 401(k) platform through its financial advisor services, a new online service designed...

May 1, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US unemployment picture brightened a bit last week, but the long-slumbering job market is far from being out of the woods.

January 17, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - CIBC Mellon's institutional clients now don't have to look far for economic research from CIBC World Markets.

May 1, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Equity hedge funds focusing on mid- and large-cap issues bested their small-cap counterparts for the year ending March 30, according to MSCI data.

January 29, 2001 (HedgeWorld.com)-Bonds are back in the driver's seat and it couldn't be better timing for fixed-income arbitrage managers seeking normalcy after the reckless bond markets of...

May 1, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - PlusFunds Group Inc. is offering investors a new vehicle to gain access to the nine single strategies represented on the S&P Hedge Fund...

January 26, 2001 (HedgeWorld.com)—The Financial Accounting Standards Board tentatively decided at Wednesday's public meeting at its Norwalk, Conn. office to eliminate the pooling-of-interests method of accounting for business...

May 1, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Investors in the Putnam College Advantage, the state of Ohio's 529 savings plan, will soon have two new investment options and a new...

January 17, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With allegations that Big Five accounting firm Anderson may have committed wrongdoing as energy trader Enron was collapsing, the chief US securities regulator...

April 30, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Senators Barbara Boxer (D-California) and John Ensign (R-Nevada) have introduced legislation that would put off mandatory expensing of stock options for at least...

April 30, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A retired employee of Mirant Corp. has filed a lawsuit alleging violations of ERISA provisions.

April 30, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Ailing workers insured by UnumProvident Corp. who have accused the largest disability insurer in the United States of concocting a scheme to deny...

April 30, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With the aggregate underfunding level at US private pension plans now at a record level, the federal pension insurer has slid deeper into...