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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,...

November 27, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Hoechst Celanese Corporation has lost its bid to avoid paying California state taxes on part of a $388-million pension reversion from a qualified...

November 27, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Supreme Court abandoned plans to rule on a major affirmative action case, concluding that the lawsuit involving a white-owned contractor wasn't...

November 15, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New Boston Fund, Inc. has launched the New Boston Real Estate Investment Fund, L.P (Fund VI), according to a company press release.

November 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More than seven out of 10 (71%) companies say their treasury department is playing a greater strategic role within their company than just...

November 15, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Participants in mid-to-large retirement plans at Scudder Retirement Services (SRS) may be getting a helping hand from an online investment-education product.

November 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has put a number on the number of fund brokers that allowed late-trading into and out of...

November 15, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Qualified clients of Gevity HR will be receiving computers as encouragement to use Gevity's HR Central.

November 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A New York hedge fund manager stepped down Friday after butting heads with colleagues about the valuing of certain investments.

November 27, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Guardian Life Insurance Company has given its Group Pensions Web site a facelift.

November 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The market downturn created a "reluctance" to use 529 college savings accounts for the costs of higher education, in part because of overall...

November 15, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US House of Representatives passed a bill to extend for a year a federal law mandating employers and health insurers to offer...

November 15, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Friedman, Billings Ramsey Group Inc. will acquire the remaining portion of FBR Asset Investment Corp. in a $772 million deal.

November 15, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Senate has approved legislation allowing some older federal employees and members of the armed forces to make catch-up contributions to the...

October 15, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) Tuesday approved plans to file a shareholder challenge to "excessive" executive compensation policies at General Electric...

October 15, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The pension-funding gap for US autoworkers will increase from $13.9 billion in 2001 to more than $30 billion by FYI the end of...

October 15, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Auditing Standards Board of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) released guidance materials for detecting fraud.