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October 24, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mellon Financial Corporation has acquired a 15% equity stake in Optima Fund Management for an undisclosed amount.

October 24, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - Morgan Stanley and Fidelity Investments Institutional Services Company launched Morgan Stanley Retirement Connection, a retirement plan product for businesses with plan assets of $5...

October 24, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors at companies with more than 100 employees, or $1 million in assets now have a new option, the Legg Mason/Delaware SelectSolutions Advantage...

October 24, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors clients of recordkeeper/administrator GoldK can now offer their participants 12 new mutual funds options from AIM Funds.

October 24, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao issued recommendations from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) that will reduce the risk of anthrax exposure...

December 10, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More than a third of workers have made a change to their retirement asset allocation in the past quarter - and nearly half...

December 10, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Early indications are that employers are increasingly interested in consumer-driven health-care alternatives - and not just because it saves them money, according to...

December 10, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Ninety-three percent of Chief Financial Officers (CFO) report a large correlation between the quality of their companies' health benefits and the strength of...

December 10, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - When executives at US multinational companies gaze into their crystal balls, many don't see a lot to sing for joy about, a new...

December 10, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Despite another good month for equity markets, participants seemed largely unmoved, according to the Hewitt 401(k) Index.

September 12, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A promise to make severance payments was too vague to create an obligation to do so, according to a federal appeals court.

September 24, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Calvert has posted the new, official membership list for its Calvert Social Index, reflecting adjustments made to the Index during its annual reconstitution.

September 12, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Investors bored with trying to gauge the direction of such commonplace investments as stocks, bonds and pork bellies will soon have a new...

September 24, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The National Investment Company Service Association (NICSA) has launched an online learning center, featuring the Mutual Fund Industry Specialist (MFIS) Certificate Program.

September 24, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) ? The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has postponed the effective date of new reporting requirements on nonqualified stock option gains until 2003.

September 24, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Zurich Financial Services and Deutsche Bank have come to terms in an agreement to transfer businesses, form a cooperation agreement, and begin the...

December 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In what has become something of a holiday "tradition," two major personal computer makers are sending workers home without pay for the December...

September 24, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has extended the temporary relief granted last week following the terrorist attack on New York's financial district, for...

December 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Private employers spent a total of $334.5 billion on health services and supplies in 2000, and nearly three-quarters of that total was for...

September 24, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With third quarter reporting rapidly approaching, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has taken up the issue of how to deal with the...