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August 21, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - General Electric has classified certain workers at its aircraft engine unit as salaried employees so it can wriggle out of paying them overtime...

August 20, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - State Street Research & Management Company has tapped C. Kim Goodwin as its new chief investment officer - equities.

August 20, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As investors pulled money out of mutual funds in the second quarter, they poured a net $4.57 billion in assets into hedge funds,...

August 20, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The latest "firm" to embrace the outsourcing of its human resource (HR) functions is none other than the State of Florida, which has...

August 19, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In the often intensely competitive world of hedge funds, hedge fund group Glenwood Capital Investments, LLC has lured Mustafa Jama away from rival...

August 19, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Rich severance packages could give potential Hershey Foods suitors indigestion, according to published reports.

August 19, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Boeing Company and the machinists' union that represents 25,000 of its workers have brought in a federal mediator after labor talks bogged down...

August 19, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Board member actions - and inactions - have been coming under increased scrutiny of late - while compensation for their actions has continued...

August 16, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A trade group survey found that regular workers receive two-thirds of the options granted at publicly held high-tech companies.

August 16, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a telling sign of the times, Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) has asked the firm's 66,000 employees to take some time off -...

August 16, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Hedge funds' July performance was in the minus column, but it continued to outdistance the performance record of major US equity indexes, according...

August 16, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A sizable 0.7% hike in medical care costs helped nudge consumer inflation 0.1% higher in July, the US Department of Labor (DoL) reported.

August 15, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The CSFB/Tremont Hedge Fund Index fell by 1.35% in July 2002 , following up on June's 0.84% decline.

August 15, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) proved to be a solid investment last year - and beat out the broader US equity markets for...

August 15, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - First-time jobless benefits claims rose by a modest 6,000 last week, but people are still having trouble getting off the unemployment line.

August 15, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Workers may be thinking about a new job, but they aren't planning to tap into their retirement stash, according to a new survey.

August 15, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - About a third of the companies responding to a survey have downsized in the last year - and half of those say they're...

August 15, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A female vice president at Morgan Stanley has filed a discrimination lawsuit claiming the firm's "ongoing and pervasive" corporate culture works against older...

August 14, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - After months of rumors and media speculation, International Business Machines (IBM) says it is cutting more than 15,600 jobs in its computer-services and...

August 14, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While there were 1,754 mass layoffs covering 392,338 people during the second quarter of 2002, the figures represent a continued improvement from the...