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September 16, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employer cuts of retiree health-care benefits are expected to continue for at least another 30 years when companies likely will only pick up...

September 16, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Even though the general corporate commitment to diversity training has remained strong, the high points of that internal education has shifted, a survey...

September 16, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - There didn't appear to be much appetite for Boeing's "best and final" three-year contract offer - nor was there sufficient interest to go...

September 16, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The FTSE4Good Advisory Committee has adjusted the components of its socially responsive index.

September 16, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The CSFB/Tremont Hedge Fund Index ticked up in August after two straight losing months.

September 16, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The CSFB/Tremont Hedge Fund Index ticked up in August after two straight losing months.

September 13, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US junk bond default rate dipped to 9.11% in August from a revised 9.39% in July, Standard & Poor's said, in a...

September 12, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Underfunded pensions and anemic investment returns can drain a company's capital that might be more productively invested elsewhere.

December 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -The Internal Revenue Service has issued guidelines on companies taking a new tax deduction on dividends passed through to employees holding company stock as...

December 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The terrorist attacks on America wiped out all other significant investment-related stories in 2001, with the global economic downturn a coming in at...

December 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors trying to figure out what to make of the interim final rules on blackout notices might draw insights from public comment...

December 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New York State Comptroller H. Carl McCall has joined a civil lawsuit seeking to freeze the assets of a number of Enron Corp.'s...

December 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The federal pension insurer has pulled back a pending rule on cash balance plans until the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) clarifies its cash...

December 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The $94 billion Florida Retirement System (FRS), plans to file as lead plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit against Enron ? the energy giant...

December 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Civil Rights (OCR) has issued Guidance to help organizations in complying with the...

December 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's largest mutual fund complex and a group representing the industry both say they oppose a government proposal to reveal how mutual...

December 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Michigan appeals court has ruled that a divorced couple did not intend to include cost of living adjustment increases in the ex-wife's...

December 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation's move to terminate seven National Steel Corporation pension plans has drawn criticism from union and company representatives alike.

December 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Merck & Co. subsidiary Medco Health Solutions, Inc., a prescription benefit manager (PBM), has agreed to a settlement worth $42.5 million in ERISA-related...

December 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Among larger employers that offered both defined benefit and defined contribution plans, the former had 61% more assets, covered 74% more participants -...