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December 27, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com)- The Department of Labor (DoL) took another step toward expanding participant advice options recently, issuing an advisory opinion that removes some of the economic...

December 27, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has released updated guidelines on providing "Safe Harbor Explanations" about rollovers as recently expanded by the Economic Growth...

December 27, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A group of Polaroid Corporation's retired executives have appealed to the company's board of directors to stop making lump-sum pension payments to employees...

December 27, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As part of a settlement in a Department of Labor (DoL) lawsuit, a federal court has ordered Premark International to provide supplemental life...

December 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The tidal wave of departing assets from embattled Putnam Investments continued with word that a large UK company and a state of Indiana...

December 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The level of soul-searching professional angst is apparently pretty high these days, according to a new survey.

March 12, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Participants appeared to be hibernating in February, at least according to the transfer volumes evidenced by the Hewitt 401(k) Index.

March 12, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As part of its routine quarterly housekeeping chores on its FTSE UK Index Series, the FTSE Group is swapping four companies from its...

March 12, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As part of its routine quarterly housekeeping chores on its FTSE UK Index Series, the FTSE Group is swapping four companies from its...

March 12, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Participants appeared to be hibernating in February, at least according to the transfer volumes evidenced by the Hewitt 401(k) Index.

November 15, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The board of trustees of the charitable trust that controls Hershey Foods Corp. is getting some new faces and will end up a...

November 15, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) is charging six additional people in an Ohio hedge fund scheme that allegedly defrauded investors of $15...

November 15, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Investment companies interested in doing business with the state of North Carolina now have another 10 weeks to comply with tough new ethics...

March 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Approximately one in three Americans, or 74.7 million people under the age of 65, were without health insurance at some point in 2001...

November 15, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) will have to reveal performance data on the $19 billion tied to private investments it previously claimed...

November 15, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal regulators have sued the former city of Chicago treasurer and two investment brokers accused of trying to gain city business by making...

November 27, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Hampered by equity market volatility, year-end assets in defined contribution (DC) plans fell by 8%, compared to 3% for defined benefit (DB) plans...

November 27, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Asset allocation is being steered to alternative investments, best practice benchmarks are evolving, and technology is changing the endowment business - these are...

November 27, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Asset allocation is being steered to alternative investments, best practice benchmarks are evolving, and technology is changing the endowment business - these are...

November 27, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - House Ways & Means Committee members Representatives Phil English (R-Pennsylvania) and Karen Thurman (D - Florida) introduced the Lifetime annuity Payout (LAP) Act,...