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Compliance |

Democrats Want PBGC Pension Boost

August 6, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Senate Democrats have introduced a bill that would boost the maximum pensions of manufacturing workers who participate in a retirement plan taken over...
Administration |

Options Desired But Not Understood

August 30, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Although more than 10% of private sector employees own stock options, nearly 40% say they know more about Einstein's Theory of Relativity than...
Administration |

FASB Plays Hard Ball

August 6, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has refused to delay new rules on controversial investment vehicles and detailed guidance for implementing its special purpose...
Administration |

VC Investors Pull In their Shell in Q2

August 6, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Not seeing much to their liking as they scoured the investment landscape, venture capitalists returned more money to investors during the second quarter...
Products |

New Fund on the Principal Buffet

July 18, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors, who are clients of the Principal Financial group, and want to offer their more conservative 401(k) participants a new stable value...
Benefits |

Hershey, Union Come to Terms

June 7, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Union workers at Hershey Foods will vote tomorrow on a tentative agreement that could end a six-week strike over health benefits.