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September 25, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - MFS Retirement Services will offer a self-directed participant investment option through an agreement with DLJdirect, the online brokerage service of Donaldson, Lufkin &...

September 13, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Officials of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, who occupied the 37th floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center, are vowing...

January 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Only 22% of respondents in a survey of members of the Profit Sharing Council of America (PSCA) offer investment advice to participants in...

January 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Benefits managers saw increased employee cost sharing as the most successful method for controlling health plan benefit costs in 2001, a survey by...

August 25, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Aon Consulting will acquire Somerset, NJ-based Actuarial Sciences Associates (ASA) in a stock swap.

August 13, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) brought and settled its first-ever case of "portfolio pumping" on Friday, censuring and assessing fines of $200,000 each...

August 13, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - The "average" 401(k) plan participant balance slipped just 0.1% last year, but older participants fared worse, according to preliminary research from by the Investment...

August 1, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Barclays Plc has decided to expand its fund management arm Barclays Global Investors (BGI) rather than putting it on the auction block.

August 1, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While most CFOs say otherwise, 17% of 180 respondents to a new survey say they have felt pressured to misrepresent financial results at...

January 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The New York region may be battling recession and the fallout of September 11, but 76% of companies polled are still actively hiring...

August 1, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor's Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration (PWBA) has published some additional guidance on how plan sponsors can right transactional errors...

August 1, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In light of the stream of corporate debacles winding up in bankruptcy court, two US lawmakers want to give workers a better shot...

August 13, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fusion Alley has launched an online pay rate calculator to simplify contract employee bill rate estimation.

August 13, 2001(Plansponsor.com)- First Union Benefits Services Group has unveiled a number of plan sponsor-oriented enhancements to its Evergreen 401(k) now product, including eligibility calculation and negative enrollment.

August 1, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Investors in the Arrive Education Savings plan now have a new set of investment choices with the offering of 14 mutual fund portfolios.

August 13, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Sponsors of smaller plans, in search of a daily valuation plan with a diversified list of mutual fund options, can now consider The...

August 13, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -Lawyers for Wal-Mart Stores are trying to get a record gender discrimination suit filed against the retail giant dismissed or transferred to a federal...

July 1, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Principal Financial Group is now fielding a new 401(k) program designed for small businesses - and targeted for distribution through intermediary channels.

July 1, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - AIM Management Group will now offer more details about its mutual funds' stock pickers, including specifying clearly who actually run the portfolios.

July 13, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New Jersey-based Commerce Bancorp has chosen First Mercantile to be its third-party provider of defined contribution plans.