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September 5, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Boeing Co.'s mechanics union will keep talking with a team of federal mediators in an attempt to avoid a strike until it "tells...

September 5, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A life insurance administrator was in the right when it turned down benefits to the widow of a Minnesota pharmacist who allegedly took...

May 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) Burlington Northern Santa Fe has agreed to pay 36 employees a total of up to $2.2 million to settle a genetic-testing case with the...

May 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee will hold a hearing Tuesday on trends in retiree health benefits.

May 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Speaking at the AICPA National Conference on Employee Benefits In Washington DC, David Walker, Comptroller General at the US General Accounting Office, discussed...

May 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Northern Trust Retirement Consulting (NTRC) is cutting the wires, expanding its Retirement Passport to include wireless applications for 401(k) plan participants.

May 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In an effort to simplify its identity in all parts of the retirement plan services market, New York Life Investment Management LLC (NYLIM)...

May 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - mPower and Standard & Poor's have formed a strategic alliance that will bring S&P's Retirement Services business, including advice technology, products and customers...

September 5, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - First-time jobless claims posted a drop, but still clung stubbornly to the key 400,000 mark for the second straight week.

September 5, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Participants in self-directed accounts mirrored the motions of the market in the second quarter, shirking stocks and heading for the relative safety of...

September 5, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The New York Times Job Market Confidence Index, which regularly polls New York area hiring managers and job seekers, dropped 10 points in...

May 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The pace of global hedge fund launches cooled considerably during the first quarter of 2002, a possible sign that the alternative investment market...

May 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While the focus of most AT&T investors at this week's annual meeting will be the vote that could set the stage for a...

April 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has dismissed the Communications Workers of America and two of its officials from a lawsuit brought by nine former Verizon...

April 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's pension insurer lost nearly $2 billion last year - but still has a hefty cushion to work with.

April 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A California jury has awarded $30 million to six female supermarket workers who claim they were sexually harassed with charges that a male...

April 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employees of Gillette Corp. are now free to sell the company shares in their retirement plans.

April 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A dreadlocked United Parcel Service driver who refused company requests to wear a cap while at work was fired because he had refused...

April 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Would-be participants in three 529 college savings plans administered by Strong Capital Management no longer have to take pen to paper in order...

September 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Deposits to unit investment trusts totaled $1.31 billion in July, up substantially from the previous month's $923.8 million.