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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.

June 2, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new Web site from a national staffing firm may help keep contract workers a bit safer.

June 2, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - United Airlines passenger contact employees, who allege union misrepresentation in an early retirement deal, may not sue the union for breach of the...

June 2, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An ERISA-governed individual retirement account (IRA) is not off limits to the federal government for the purposes of collecting a criminal fine, a...

February 6, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Representative Charles Norwood (R-Georgia) has proposed two bills aimed at providing clarification and protections for patients in managed-care plans.

June 2, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) HMO premiums, long considered a bellwether for health care costs across the country, may not be...

February 6, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A number of retirement services industry groups are raising concerns about the potential impact of the recent White House proposal to revamp company...

June 2, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Texas workers are slightly less likely than workers nationally to say they or their spouse have saved for retirement and to say they...

January 30, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.COM)-ING Group will sell its US operations in ING Barings to Dutch rival ABN Amro for $275 million.

January 30, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Larkspur-Web DataMaster customers will be able to pose technical questions about qualified retirement plans and receive free answers via email from the Technical...

January 18, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Institutional investors will soon be able to access additional market data with the expected mid-March launch of the Nasdaq PostData computer system.

January 18, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Rochester man who practices the Rastafarian religion has won a $33,500 settlement from Greyhound Lines after complaining he couldn't get a bus...

January 18, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two investment managers charged with losing about $11 million from a Louisiana teachers retirement savings fund by funneling it into speculative investments have...

January 18, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As the plight of Enron workers continues to dominate headlines, new legislative proposals continue to crop up.

January 6, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mercer Investment Consulting has teamed up with Record Currency Management to offer a foreign exchange audit service designed to help pension trustees know...