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November 19, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors who want to take their fiduciary responsibilities a step further might find Securian Retirement Services' new due diligence program worth investigating.

November 19, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - Some 88% of investment professionals classify employee stock options grants as compensation - and believe that they should be recognized as an expense in...

November 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Oak Brook, Illinois-based Van Kampen Management has sold a unit that specializes in managing fixed-income investments for pension funds, insurers and wealthy individuals...

November 19, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Hickory Group and Roulston & Company have recently completed a merger transaction, the latest in the trend towards consolidation in the investment management...

November 19, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - Equity markets may have nose-dived, but the average participant?s 401(k) asset allocation remained unchanged between 1999 and 2000, according to data from the EBRI/ICI...

October 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors seeking an Internal Revenue Service letter proclaiming their plan as tax qualified can get copies of the recently revised necessary forms...

October 7, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With the controversy over companies pondering an offshore reincorporation to escape the US tax man, now comes word that one company is studying...

October 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) ? The Securities and Exchange Commission Web site is going bilingual.

October 7, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A UK pension group has proposed a new "citizens pension" to replace the current state-funded pensions.

October 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Older Americans will only get a 2.6% cost-of-living increase in their monthly Social Security checks next year ? a smaller amount than January?s...

October 7, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Investment consultants are being used by more institutional investors than ever before, according to a new report by Berkeley-based Cooper Consultants.

October 7, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has proposed that requirements for explanations given to participants about two types of annuities be consolidated and has...

October 31, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Zurich Financial Services will invest $2 billion in private equity and hedge funds, as part of a plan to establish a global alternative...

October 7, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - About 5,000 women who were allegedly fired or denied employment by Rent-A-Center Inc. will share in a $47-million settlement of two class-action sex...

October 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -The Bank of New York (BONY), determined to be prepared for any event, will now require some customers to have back-up communications links to...

October 7, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Supreme Court Monday let stand a lower court decision that blocked the state of Connecticut from suing a health maintenance organization...

October 19, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a bid to strengthen the link between compensation and performance at UK companies, shareholders are to be given the right to vote on...

October 19, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - Participants in the College Retirement Equities Fund portion of TIAA-CREF will put the issue of socially responsible investing to the vote at the fund?s...

October 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Merrill Lynch's anticipated layoffs of thousands of workers will not affect its retirement division, according to a Merrill spokesperson.

October 19, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) -Ernst & Young and software provider Transcentive, have teamed up to develop an international tax processing solution - the first step towards the creation of...