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December 17, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Former Merck security investigator Michele Alifano won one significant legal battle and lost another one in her fight for workplace protections because of...

December 17, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A group of Southern California Gas Company employees filed a proposed class action lawsuit against their employer, claiming that the gas distributor required...

December 17, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors with self-directed brokerage accounts got a break when Department of Labor (DoL) officials said they could lump together assets held through...

December 17, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Georgia court dismissed a case the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) had brought against a man who bought VeriFone stock based on...

December 29, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Information copies of the new Form 5000 schedules and instructions were released today.

December 5, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Wells Fargo has introduced Retirement Pay Plans, a new lump sum feature to its Web-based business portal for pension payments and plan administration.

December 5, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Morningstar, Inc has announced plans to offer proprietary investments tools to America Online members.

December 5, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Ernst & Young LLP has launched a new Web-based financial advice and planning tool for employers looking to offer their employees access to...

December 17, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Morningstar, Inc is going into the index business and plans to launch a family of style-based equity indexes to serve as tools for...

December 17, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - San Francisco-based First Republic Bank, a provider of private banking, investment management and trust services announced that is has reached an agreement to...

December 17, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - National Bank Trust has added new investment vehicles to its group pension plan product offering and has entered into an agreement with Industrial...

December 17, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Brokerage firm Wall Street Access has launched a new suite of data products and analytical tools for options traders through a partnership with...

December 5, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Ever the wheeler-dealer, Alabama's pension fund is looking to improve the deal struck to buy 37.5% of US Airways.

December 5, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Standard & Poor's has cut its projected year-end US junk bond default rate forecast to between 7% and 7.5% from between 8% and...

December 5, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Workers in North Carolina, fighting to have $151 million in withheld pension funds returned to them, have lost their appeal to the state...

December 5, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The federal pension insurer is moving to take over seven badly underfunded pension plans from National Steel Corp., which collectively represent a $1.1-billion...

November 29, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Schwab Institutional has launched Administrative Trustee services on a pilot basis, allowing independent investment advisors to deliver trust administration services while maintaining investment...

November 5, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Retirement Capital Advisors (RCA) has announced a partnership with Frank Russell Company to provide its clients with Russell's institutional multi-manager products.

November 5, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Companies interested in providing their employees easy access to mental health information might want to consider a new online product.

November 5, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors with plans administered by ING can now offer online advice to their participants.