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June 13, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The disabled have won a significant victory with a federal appeals court decision that municipal sidewalks have to be made accessible with curb...

June 25, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) ? Senate Republicans returned to the patients' bill of rights (PBOR) debate Friday armed with an amendment that would specifically exempt employers from any...

June 25, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Hedge fund clients can now tap into a new array of risk management services, courtesy of a linkup between Algorithmics Incorporated and Morgan...

June 25, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - SunGard Corbel has upgraded Relius Administration, its 401(k) administration and recordkeeping software to include a straight-through processing (STP) feature.

June 25, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Human resource (HR) consulting giant Hewitt Associates has teamed up with HR software giant PeopleSoft to offer human resource consulting services to Fortune...

June 25, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Emplanet has acquired the assets of Braintree, Massachusetts-based recordkeeper Retirement Plan Strategies, as the recordkeeping consolidation trend continues.

June 13, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Delaware Investments is teaming with a Burlington, Vermont investment house to offer stable value products to institutional investors.

June 13, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors who want to do a little fee shopping can now tap into a new online database.

June 13, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) has developed a health insurance claims processing service that it says will save billions in administrative costs.

June 13, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Newly published 5500 data reveals that 401(k) plans continue to dominate the retirement plan landscape - but there are some reassuring signs of...

June 13, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Trustees of Fidelity Investments' mutual funds have asked the giant fund company's legal department to study how they can best pressure corporate directors...

May 13, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As opposition continues to an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) plan to impose payroll taxes on incentive stock options and employee stock purchase plans,...

May 25, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As expected, Vermont Senator Jim Jeffords Thursday changed his party affiliation from Republican to Independent, with the potential to send shockwaves through key...

May 13, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Claims that Rite Aid Corp. mismanaged its pension plans, including a 401(k) plan with company stock as an investment option, appear closer to...

May 1, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Shareholders at IBM Corp. have rejected five proposals that included pension plan options for workers and mandatory stock option expensing.

May 1, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal court lawsuit over retirement-plan losses charges that Sprint Corp. did not adequately protect participants from risky investments in its own company...

May 13, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) will reallocate funds to investments in the Philippines, reversing a February decision to exit the market.

May 13, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New British Airways employees will be offered a defined contribution plan instead of the air carrier's traditional defined benefit final salary program, starting...

May 13, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - KeyCorp. said it has agreed to acquire nearly all of the mortgage loan and real estate business of Conning Asset Management including its...

(May 13, 2002) -The UK Accounting Standards Board blames the weak equity market for the demise of the UK defined benefit pension plans.