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March 12, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Companies are making changes to their executive compensation policies and practices in light of current economic, regulatory and governance trends.

December 27, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com)- The Department of Labor (DoL) took another step toward expanding participant advice options recently, issuing an advisory opinion that removes some of the economic...

December 27, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has released updated guidelines on providing "Safe Harbor Explanations" about rollovers as recently expanded by the Economic Growth...

December 27, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A group of Polaroid Corporation's retired executives have appealed to the company's board of directors to stop making lump-sum pension payments to employees...

December 27, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As part of a settlement in a Department of Labor (DoL) lawsuit, a federal court has ordered Premark International to provide supplemental life...

December 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The tidal wave of departing assets from embattled Putnam Investments continued with word that a large UK company and a state of Indiana...

December 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The level of soul-searching professional angst is apparently pretty high these days, according to a new survey.

March 12, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Participants appeared to be hibernating in February, at least according to the transfer volumes evidenced by the Hewitt 401(k) Index.

March 12, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As part of its routine quarterly housekeeping chores on its FTSE UK Index Series, the FTSE Group is swapping four companies from its...

November 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has put a number on the number of fund brokers that allowed late-trading into and out of...

November 15, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Qualified clients of Gevity HR will be receiving computers as encouragement to use Gevity's HR Central.

November 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A New York hedge fund manager stepped down Friday after butting heads with colleagues about the valuing of certain investments.

November 27, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Guardian Life Insurance Company has given its Group Pensions Web site a facelift.

November 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The market downturn created a "reluctance" to use 529 college savings accounts for the costs of higher education, in part because of overall...

November 15, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US House of Representatives passed a bill to extend for a year a federal law mandating employers and health insurers to offer...

November 15, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Friedman, Billings Ramsey Group Inc. will acquire the remaining portion of FBR Asset Investment Corp. in a $772 million deal.

November 15, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Senate has approved legislation allowing some older federal employees and members of the armed forces to make catch-up contributions to the...

November 15, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The board of trustees of the charitable trust that controls Hershey Foods Corp. is getting some new faces and will end up a...

November 15, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) is charging six additional people in an Ohio hedge fund scheme that allegedly defrauded investors of $15...

November 15, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Investment companies interested in doing business with the state of North Carolina now have another 10 weeks to comply with tough new ethics...