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September 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Negotiators for the International Association of Machinists wrapped up talks with federal mediators Friday night, preparing its membership for a new vote on...

September 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Younger Baby Boomers have been real job hoppers - bounding almost 10 times from job to job between age 18 and 36, a...

September 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -Health-care insurance costs skyrocketed by 12.7% this year - the highest since 1990 - with more costs shifting to workers, and some smaller firms...

September 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The lobbying arm of a retirement services industry group is pressing for lawmakers to drop a provision in pension reform legislation adding more...

September 22, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A female plaintiff's wage discrimination claim was allowed to proceed after a federal district court noted ambiguities in the case law on such...

September 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Wal-Mart has sued several insurance companies for more than $150 million in restitution for losses related to corporate-owned life insurance (COLI) policies.

August 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new legislative proposal in California would bar companies that move to another country so they won't be on the hook for US...

August 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The deal to transition the recordkeeping of Prudential Financial's small-plan defined contribution clients to BISYS has been completed, Prudential announced.

August 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 43 companies, which have already pledged to expense employee stock options, would suffer only a 4.2% hit to earnings if they had...

August 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A move by a New Jersey Congressman to strike a law requiring that Americans start withdrawing money from their Individual Retirement Accounts (IRA)...

August 21, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - CMS BondEdge has expanded its fixed income portfolio analytics system, offering plan sponsors and institutional investors additional capabilities.

August 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - FinancialOxygen has partnered with Ernst and Young to provide an advisory service to independent financial institutions participating in its online capital markets trading...

August 21, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - Morningstar has introduced the Morningstar Managed Portfolios program, a portfolio-management service for advisors who want to use external professionals for additional help with portfolio...

September 6, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US unemployment rate dipped to a five-month low in August at 5.7%, but the domestic job-making machine is apparently still largely moribund,...

September 6, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors looking for a new series of performance benchmarks might find a solution in a new series of indexes from FTSE.

June 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fidelity now offers a new tool for plan sponsors struggling with compensation decisions.

June 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Highly compensated workers now have online access to Paragon Life Insurance Company accounts.

June 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) ?Labor Department officials have "substantially liberalized" rules governing how much sponsors can charge back to their plan for participant communications, a consultant group says.

June 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - After a full day of discussion Wednesday, the Senate will likely move closer to some consideration of the patients' bill of rights legislation...

September 6, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Kaiser Aluminum is trying to dig its way out of bankruptcy- and has gotten court approval to sweeten an executive retention pool, even...