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November 28, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With Enron Corp.'s troubles multiplying by the day, industry insiders say that the solution to the problem of company stock is not necessarily...

April 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Maintaining different early retirement plans for employees of Puerto Rican and continental United States plants does not violate Title VII of the 1964...

November 28, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Small business owners will now be able to purchase GoldK's retirement plans through 1st Global, a broker dealer, following an agreement between the...

April 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pension reform champions Portman and Cardin are at it again, putting forth new legislation that could have an impact as significant as their...

November 28, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Three-quarters of CEOs at health insurance companies expect significant changes in the competitive structure of the industry, a new survey by Tillinghast -...

April 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal regulators have proposed a technical amendment to bring the effective dates of interim final rules for the Mental Health Parity Act (MHPA)...

November 28, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Metavante Corporation, a subsidiary of Marshall & Ilsley Corporation, will acquire 401kservices.com, a third-party administrator of 401k), pension, and profit-sharing plans, for an...

April 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A coalition of patient groups and privacy supporters is trying to block a new federal health privacy law from taking effect next week...

November 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Colorado Public Employees Retirement Association (PERA), having "lost confidence in the fund and its management's ability to achieve its original performance and...

April 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Tobacco companies were not accountable for the increased costs of healthcare expenses due to smoking habits of other healthcare participants.

November 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pension funds in New York City have joined the parade of public defined benefit plans that have severed money management relationships with Putnam...

November 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Sarbanes-Oxley's impact has been little more than a whimper for not-for-profit organizations.

November 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Many Americans are losing sight of the big financial picture when they plan for retirement, a new survey found

November 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Microsoft plan to pay workers with stock shares instead of options has drawn opposition from a powerful public pension fund.

November 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com)—During 2002, 23% of Board Directors serving on Fortune 1000 companies in the Americas turned down additional board roles, a 10% increase from 2001, according...

November 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mutual funds and public pension plans pay about the same for external management of their portfolios, according to research by a fund industry...

November 28, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Social Insurance Committee of the American Academy of Actuaries released a white paper, which analyzes the issue of using annuities to pay...

October 16, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A New York employer that loaned all its profit-sharing plan assets to a currency exchange has been forced to make the plan whole...

October 16, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has turned aside efforts by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) to block the United Steelworkers of America from getting...

April 10, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Workers at Mercedes-Benz' Vance, Alabama plant will be paid $687,588 in back wages associated with time spent changing uniforms over the past two...