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April 15, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The administrator of two money purchase pension plans violated its fiduciary duty by loading up on life insurance policies and should repay $1.3...

April 15, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A woman once married to a former Ford Motor Company employee has lost another skirmish in her ongoing legal battle for proceeds from...

April 15, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) has issued clarification on plan loans impacted by provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of...

April 15, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Workscape, Inc has announced the addition of three new services for its benefits customers.

April 15, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An Andover, Massachusetts online products provider has weighed into the crowded 529 college savings market with an education and sales Web site for...

April 15, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Merrill Lynch will use software from a Cambridge Massachusetts company to allow client retirement plan sponsors to offer a more personalized trip through...

April 15, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Morningstar has pulled together a number of its advice services into an integrated Enterprise Advice Solution including its now up-and-running Morningstar Managed Retirement...

April 15, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Worldwide mutual fund assets rose 5.2% in the fourth quarter to $11.2 trillion.

April 14, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Senator Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) has introduced a bill to allow tax-exempt entities, such as pension funds and university endowment funds, to invest in...

April 14, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Chief Executive Officers (CEO) saw increases in all components of their pay packages in 2002, as total annual compensation rose a median 10%...

April 14, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - After experiencing three months of positive returns, preliminary data shows the MSCI Hedge Fund Indices slid into the red by 0.4% in March.

April 14, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Assets in Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) based on the S&P 500 decreased 17% in 2002.

April 14, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors have another option to consider among vendors offering premixed investment portfolios that become more conservative as participants near retirement.

April 14, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New money market and prime brokerage notification products are coming to the market this year from electronic foreign exchange trading platform Fxall.

April 14, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - SunGard Corbel has tacked on a defined contribution recurring rebalance transactions feature and Defined Benefit 412(i) plan recordkeeping options in its Relius Administration's...

December 17, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's private pension insurer is stepping in to take over another pension plan - its largest ever - and another employer professes...

December 16, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - CaliforniaChoice, a provider of online healthcare benefit flexibility and budget controls to small employers, is extending its product offerings to include free labor-related...

December 28, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - After more than a year of fruitless settlement talks, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed a discrimination suit against the Allstate Insurance...

December 16, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Starting early next year, Nationwide Financial will provide a fee-based managed account product to its investment advisors for offering to clients, the company...

December 28, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Venture capital fund raising is down 21% from last year's record-setting pace. Still, despite challenging economic times, 2001 is shaping up to be...