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March 6, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - All college savings programs are not created equal, nor are the Web sites that support them, according to a new survey by management...

March 6, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's largest retirement-fund manager again flashed its long-standing fiscal conservatism by lowering the expected annual returns on its employee pension to 7%...

March 6, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - There is a new kid on the non-qualified deferred compensation block with a plan targeted to mid- and small-sized employers.

March 6, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Tyco International will not have to worry about shipping office furniture back to the United States as shareholders defeated the proposal to shift...

March 6, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fidelity Investments has unveiled Fidelity Retirement Plan Manager, a discretionary management service for the nearly 10 million participants it serves through 401(k) and...

March 6, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A majority of chief financial officers (CFO) in private companies are taking reform steps because of new accounting regulations that have placed the...

March 6, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Waste management company Browning-Ferris, Inc. has agreed to settle claims that it illegally terminated an employee suffering from Crohn's disease.

June 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's employment picture looked brighter in May as the number of announced layoffs plummeted 53% to a 30-month low.

March 30, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Smaller plans appear to have some critical knowledge gaps when it comes to investment manager practices.

March 6, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A sweeping pension reform bill is headed for the floor of the US House of Representatives after a House committee approved the measure.

June 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - May's jobless rate figure will come out as scheduled Friday, but the surrounding government data will look a bit different than before.

March 18, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR) - On Friday, the Earle M. Jorgensen Company (EMJ) confirmed that while it has been told by the Department of Labor that the DOL...

March 6, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Legislation that would give private-sector workers the right to voluntarily choose paid time off instead of overtime has been introduced in the US...

February 18, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has picked the University of California as lead plaintiff in a massive class-action shareholder lawsuit against Enron officials and the...

February 18, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Tootsie Roll Industries has denied socially conscious investor, Calvert Asset Management Co.'s request to change the wrapper of its Tootsie Pop.

February 6, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Steel Corp. may have taken a temporary step backwards in its bid to buy the assets of ailing National Steel Corp., but...

February 6, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Hospital chain HCA Inc has agreed to overhaul its corporate governance under a settlement with state pension funds.

February 18, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Picture a once-storied company, suddenly struck by financial troubles - troubles that have now drawn the size of pensions paid to its former...

June 2, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federated Investors, Inc. has unveiled the Federated Foundation 401(k), a multi- manager retirement program offered by Edward Jones investment representatives.

June 2, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Financial intermediaries have a new hedge fund advisory service from Ibbotson Associates.