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April 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A hearing by the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education will focus on less onerous alternatives to the...

April 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - INVESCO Funds Group plans to incorporate a speech recognition feature into its toll-free, automated Personal Account Line next month.

April 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co will be the first to use a newly created socially responsible index as the benchmark for a...

April 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Vanguard Group plans to offer a new range of secure online personal financial management services on its Web site.

April 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The growing interest in, and availability of, hedge funds in the plan sponsor community has heightened the importance of the prime broker function,...

July 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's jobless claims fell for the second month in a row - and to a 15-month low last week - and there...

March 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Treasury officials can get an online price quote from JPMorgan Institutional Trust Services, courtesy of Institutional Trust Quote, an online capability that offers...

March 7, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Investors looking for a substitute mutual fund choice for one that's closed to new customers or carries hefty fees may find some relief...

March 7, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Investors in the state of Pennsylvania's new 529 college savings plan will have two socially conscious investment alternatives to choose from in the...

March 7, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge upbraided the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) for not trying harder to settle the racial discrimination claims of a...

March 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Last week the Senate Finance Committee approved the Affordable Education Act of 2001 that would, among other things, make permanent the tax-free treatment...

July 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Recently issued tax clarification about health care reimbursement arrangements (HRA) is likely to prompt more employers to adopt an HRA as a low-cost...

July 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Conforming to a recent US Supreme Court case, the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) said it wouldn't process discrimination claims from undocumented...

March 7, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The beleaguered steel industry suffered another casualty Wednesday when National Steel Corp. filed for protection from a federal bankruptcy court - the largest...

March 7, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Deutsche Bank has agreed to buy RoPro U.S. Holding Inc., a holding company for the real estate investment manager RREEF.

March 7, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Retirement plan trading restrictions on company stock may not be as extensive as some might have feared, a new study indicates.

March 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The number of companies sponsoring an employee stock ownership plan, or ESOP, has declined significantly over the past decade, but the average amount...

March 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The tight labor market has slowed employer adoption - but not the interest - in a defined contribution model for healthcare, according to...

March 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Higher education endowments are making a larger commitment to alternative asset classes, according to a new study.

February 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Over the weekend President Bush rolled back several government policies favored by organized labor, restoring those put in place by his father.