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December 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New York State Comptroller H. Carl McCall has joined a civil lawsuit seeking to freeze the assets of a number of Enron Corp.'s...

December 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The federal pension insurer has pulled back a pending rule on cash balance plans until the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) clarifies its cash...

December 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The $94 billion Florida Retirement System (FRS), plans to file as lead plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit against Enron ? the energy giant...

December 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Civil Rights (OCR) has issued Guidance to help organizations in complying with the...

December 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's largest mutual fund complex and a group representing the industry both say they oppose a government proposal to reveal how mutual...

December 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Michigan appeals court has ruled that a divorced couple did not intend to include cost of living adjustment increases in the ex-wife's...

December 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation's move to terminate seven National Steel Corporation pension plans has drawn criticism from union and company representatives alike.

December 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Merck & Co. subsidiary Medco Health Solutions, Inc., a prescription benefit manager (PBM), has agreed to a settlement worth $42.5 million in ERISA-related...

December 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Among larger employers that offered both defined benefit and defined contribution plans, the former had 61% more assets, covered 74% more participants -...

September 12, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A group of Goodyear Tire & Rubber workers have sued their employer, claiming the firm's employee evaluation system discriminates against older workers.

December 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - State Street Research & Management Inc., a unit of MetLife Inc., has announced plans to halt international equity investing, according to a Dow...

September 12, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Starting next year, Northwest Airline workers will have to dig deeper in their pockets to pay a larger share of soaring healthcare costs.

November 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - It seemed inevitable that Enron Corp. would be fanning the flames of a class action suit over its embattled 401(k) plan after last...

November 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -In what appears to be an emerging trend, employees of embattled energy trading giant Enron sued their employer for endangering their retirement funds --causing...

November 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Transamerica Financial Advisors (TFA) says its TFA Advantage software will help investment advisors do a better job building client portfolios.

November 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Defined-benefit pension plans are rapidly embracing "bundled" provider offerings, according to a new study by financial services consultant Chatham Partners.

November 21, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - In the face of rising unemployment, the majority of US employees surveyed believe that their employers will avoid trimming payrolls at all costs, a...

September 11, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The FTSE Group has dropped three companies from its blue chip FTSE 100 Index, the index company announced.

September 11, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Participants continued to maintain a relatively high level of transfer activity in August, according to the Hewitt 401(k) Index.

September 10, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Hedge funds trailed a broader stock market index by a hair in August, but managed to edge out two other equity indices for...