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August 19, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Boeing Company and the machinists' union that represents 25,000 of its workers have brought in a federal mediator after labor talks bogged down...

August 19, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Board member actions - and inactions - have been coming under increased scrutiny of late - while compensation for their actions has continued...

August 16, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A trade group survey found that regular workers receive two-thirds of the options granted at publicly held high-tech companies.

August 16, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a telling sign of the times, Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) has asked the firm's 66,000 employees to take some time off -...

August 16, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Hedge funds' July performance was in the minus column, but it continued to outdistance the performance record of major US equity indexes, according...

August 16, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A sizable 0.7% hike in medical care costs helped nudge consumer inflation 0.1% higher in July, the US Department of Labor (DoL) reported.

August 15, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - About a third of the companies responding to a survey have downsized in the last year - and half of those say they're...

August 15, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A female vice president at Morgan Stanley has filed a discrimination lawsuit claiming the firm's "ongoing and pervasive" corporate culture works against older...

August 15, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The CSFB/Tremont Hedge Fund Index fell by 1.35% in July 2002 , following up on June's 0.84% decline.

August 15, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) proved to be a solid investment last year - and beat out the broader US equity markets for...

August 15, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - First-time jobless benefits claims rose by a modest 6,000 last week, but people are still having trouble getting off the unemployment line.

August 15, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Workers may be thinking about a new job, but they aren't planning to tap into their retirement stash, according to a new survey.

August 14, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While there were 1,754 mass layoffs covering 392,338 people during the second quarter of 2002, the figures represent a continued improvement from the...

August 14, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - After months of rumors and media speculation, International Business Machines (IBM) says it is cutting more than 15,600 jobs in its computer-services and...

December 20, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Lincoln Alliance Program has announced the launch of online investment guidance and advice through mPower.

December 20, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An office worker who ended customer communications with the words "have a blessed day" was not entitled to a preliminary injunction against her...

December 20, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) ? With decimalization tightening trading spreads, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has voted to extend ?safe harbor? protections for soft dollar trades to...

December 20, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted to require corporations to show the number of outstanding stock options, warrants and rights, and the...

August 12, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Just how well did public, private and foundation/endowment plans fare in the tumultuous second quarter of 2002?

August 12, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - GenXers may have been portrayed as financial neer-do-wells, with better things to do than worry about careers or saving, but a new survey...