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November 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com)—During 2002, 23% of Board Directors serving on Fortune 1000 companies in the Americas turned down additional board roles, a 10% increase from 2001, according...

November 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mutual funds and public pension plans pay about the same for external management of their portfolios, according to research by a fund industry...

November 28, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Social Insurance Committee of the American Academy of Actuaries released a white paper, which analyzes the issue of using annuities to pay...

April 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Transamerica Retirement Services is today unveiling what it terms a "new generation" of retirement plan products.

April 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new wellness product from Aetna could help restore the glow of good health to employees' cheeks.

November 28, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -Republican leaders have backed Senator Pete Domenici's (R - New Mexico) payroll tax-holiday proposal as a way to end the congressional deadlock over an...

April 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While the pace of participant transfer activity continued to be relatively normal during March, volumes picked up just before - and just after...

November 28, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Senate Republicans blocked a measure to allow some railway pension fund assets to be invested on Wall Street, calling it an attempt to...

April 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Excessive medical liability costs have stolen home plate by limiting the ability of Canadian baseball teams to retain a team doctor.

November 28, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With Enron Corp.'s troubles multiplying by the day, industry insiders say that the solution to the problem of company stock is not necessarily...

April 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Maintaining different early retirement plans for employees of Puerto Rican and continental United States plants does not violate Title VII of the 1964...

November 28, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Small business owners will now be able to purchase GoldK's retirement plans through 1st Global, a broker dealer, following an agreement between the...

April 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pension reform champions Portman and Cardin are at it again, putting forth new legislation that could have an impact as significant as their...

November 28, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Three-quarters of CEOs at health insurance companies expect significant changes in the competitive structure of the industry, a new survey by Tillinghast -...

April 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal regulators have proposed a technical amendment to bring the effective dates of interim final rules for the Mental Health Parity Act (MHPA)...

November 28, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Metavante Corporation, a subsidiary of Marshall & Ilsley Corporation, will acquire 401kservices.com, a third-party administrator of 401k), pension, and profit-sharing plans, for an...

April 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A coalition of patient groups and privacy supporters is trying to block a new federal health privacy law from taking effect next week...

November 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Colorado Public Employees Retirement Association (PERA), having "lost confidence in the fund and its management's ability to achieve its original performance and...

April 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Tobacco companies were not accountable for the increased costs of healthcare expenses due to smoking habits of other healthcare participants.

November 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pension funds in New York City have joined the parade of public defined benefit plans that have severed money management relationships with Putnam...