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May 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors for tax-exempt plans have a new multi-vendor annuity and mutual fund recordkeeping and administrative platform to consider from Fidelity Investments.

May 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Stone & Youngberg is rolling out a new Internet-based municipal bond trading platform for investment advisors, broker-dealers and institutional investors.

May 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The worldwide market for recruiting and staffing services in 2002 was down 6.3% to $58.9 billion in the face of a weak economic...

May 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Older workers are up to five times more likely to submit disability claims than their younger colleagues while the elder employees' absence durations...

May 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Bank of New York (BoNY) announced two executive appointments in its Asset Management and Asset Solutions unit.

May 13, 2003 (PLANSPONOR.com) - Retirees of Dayco Products LLC, who claim a collective bargaining agreement gives them no-cost health insurance benefits, may proceed with their class action...

May 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Retirees from the badly ailing US steel industry who lose their health insurance coverage would get a helping hand from new Congressional legislation...

May 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Faced with a "pension time bomb" as countries around the globe struggle to mend their ailing retirement savings systems, European Union (EU) member...

May 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The legislative stage has been set for a vote by the US House of Representatives on the Pension Security Act, a sweeping pension...

May 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Senate Finance Committee has included provisions in its $441 billion tax bill to tax certain deferred compensation plans and deny deferral of...

May 12, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With active hostilities in Iraq at a conclusion, investors breathed some life back into equities in April with value funds outpacing growth, according...

December 17, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A proposed merger between Bethlehem Steel Corp and International Steel Group to create the nation's largest steelmaker appears to have hit the skids...

December 17, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An ESOP trustee who approved a loan repayment after the company was acquired by another firm didn't breach its ERISA fiduciary duties, an...

December 17, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB) is introducing a new section on its Web site to assist financial firms issuing products, including 529...

December 17, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Printing giant R.R. Donnelley & Sons has agreed to pay $150,000 to a paraplegic graphics technician who was refused additional work as a...

December 17, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With a pension crisis looming in some member countries, the European Union Commission is now pushing reforms, such as raising the retirement age...

December 17, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Supreme Court justices have refused to take a Texas case that would have allowed them to consider shielding states from unequal pay...

December 17, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) is asking the US government to deny companies posing a risk to national security access to...

December 17, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - ChoicePoint, a provider of identification and credential verification services, has enhanced its ScreenNow software to include job posting, behavioral and skills assessment tests...

December 17, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A bankruptcy judge has ordered State Street Bank and Trust Co, the trustee for United Airlines' employee stock ownership plan (ESOP), not to...