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May 16, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - SAM Indexes and Dow Jones Indexes announced that investment banks Merrill Lynch & Co and WestLB Panmure have launched the first structured products...

May 16, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The market for 529 college savings programs continues to be hot with the launching of a plan from PIMCO Fund Distributors LLC.

May 28, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Despite last minute jostling and being tied to a sometimes controversial tax package, pension reform finally got through Congress Saturday, on its way...

April 16, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A group of former LTV Steel Corporation employees have set up a company to offer health and other benefits to former workers and...

April 16, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Companies haven't eliminated cash bonuses to employees for helping recruit new talent, results of a survey reveal.

April 16, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge lifted an order preventing former employees of RogersCasey Inc. from soliciting business from RogersCasey clients, but added several new prohibitions.

April 16, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), a longtime corporate governance champion, is debating joining a wing of the post-Enron accounting reform campaign...

April 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A requirement by Canadian pension regulators that Air Canada pour money into some of its pension plans by Friday was the primary motivation...

April 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nearly a third of all companies recently polled are considering ending the practice of offering earnings guidance.

April 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A US District Court judge has upheld a decision by the Prudential Employee Savings Plan to develop a written policy restricting frequent "market...

April 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Both employers and employees have two new labor law resources at their disposal courtesy of the US Department of Labor (DoL): an online...

April 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Unions collecting fees from non-member public-sector employees must have their financial statements independently audited, a federal appeals court ruled.

April 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The weather's turning nicer (somewhere, I'm sure it is), and that enhances the likelihood that you'll be hearing some unusual excuses for tardiness.

April 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Doctors in high-risk specialties have dropped certain services, referred complex cases to other physicians, or closed their practices entirely because of skyrocketing medical...

April 16, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Mississippi man working as an independent contractor, who sued two insurance companies after they cut off his disability payments, has lost his...

April 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Airways president David Siegel says airline executives are overpaid - none more so than Delta Air Lines chief executive officer Leo Mullin.

April 16, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Retirement plan provider GoldK Inc. has widened its distribution channel with an agreement to allow advisors from NFP Securities, Inc. to offer GoldK...

April 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Though only 30% of US companies are utilizing a formal approach to identify high-potential leaders, most of those who have formal succession planning...

April 16, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Minneapolis-based RSM McGladrey Inc., a tax consulting and accounting firm, has acquired Iowa-based Tower Pension Specialists, a recordkeeping and investment advisory firm.

April 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Minnesota state House of Representatives and Senate have passed a compromise bill approving state labor contracts for nearly 50,000 employees with gay...