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February 6, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a week already cluttered with legislative attempts to prevent another Enron, a Pennsylvania Congressman has joined the fray.

February 6, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Following today's testimony from the Secretary of Labor, tomorrow a House Committee will begin to wade through the details of the Enron 401(k)...

February 26, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - First Union Benefit Services Group has launched a new proprietary recordkeeping system it calls Nowtrac(k).

February 6, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Still River Retirement Planning Software, Inc. has launched Retirement Works, a suite of Web calculators for retirement plan compliance.

February 6, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Smith Barney Corporate Trust Company has expanded its offerings for qualified employee benefit plans to include four LifePath Portfolios - with the aim...

February 6, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - ICMA Retirement Corporation will offer its clients online financial advice and guidance via mPower's Personal Advisor service.

February 6, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) backed a move by General Electric Co. to block a shareholder proposal to increase pensions from its...

January 18, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service has proposed regulations that would simplify the minimum distribution rules for qualified plans (incl. 403bs and 457s) and IRAs.

January 18, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal securities regulators announced Wednesday they have adopted a new rule aimed at preventing investors from being misled by deceptive names of mutual...

January 18, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Individual retirement account (IRA) assets grew almost 22% between 1998-1999, reaching $2.47 trillion and topping the assets in both private pension and defined...

May 31, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Assets in exchange traded funds (ETFs) totaled $85.8 billion in April, a 2.7% drop from the previous month, according to the Investment Company...

May 31, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Investors added a net $5.6 billion in assets to hedge funds in the first quarter of 2002, ending 2001's record growth pace, according...

May 31, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com)- The Vanguard Group has announced that Ernst von Metzsch, portfolio manager of the Vanguard Wellington fund, among others, will retire at the end of...

May 31, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Americans increasingly go online to search for medical information, a new survey found.

May 30, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The doors at Dot.com companies were spinning at top speed in May as the number of layoffs tripled, new statistics show.

May 30, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A union representing 2,000 of the US Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) 3,000 employees is battling with the agency over how to spend...

May 30, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - There were 1,507 mass layoff actions in April involving at least 50 workers from a single company, with cuts in temporary workforces leading...

May 30, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Stock mutual funds attracted just $11.7 billion in new money in April, down significantly from the $29.6 billion in net inflows in March,...

May 30, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Although the number of Americans seeking initial unemployment benefits fell for the second straight week, workers appear to be staying unemployed longer.

May 29, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With the introduction of a new trading program that will allow traders to execute trades from their desktops, the Big Board will put...