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November 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Benefits administrators fighting health-care cost increases may want to consider a new medical stop-loss policy from Sun Life Financial designed to give employers...

November 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nationwide Retirement Solutions' 1.5 million public sector retirement plan participants are eligible to participate in an investment education webcast.

November 28, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Former hedge fund manager Michael Berger, 29, pleaded guilty to securities fraud charges yesterday, after allegedly doctoring account statements after losing some $400...

November 16, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - White House economic adviser Glenn Hubbard does not support the payroll tax holiday legislation spearheaded by Senator Pete Domenici (R - New Mexico),...

November 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Lehman Brothers has announced enhancements to its market indices.

November 16, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New legislation for a payroll tax holiday is scheduled to be introduced by Senator Pete Domenici (R - New Mexico), according to a...

November 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Despite numerous surveys showing large asset flows out of stocks, equities are still the largest asset class in 401(k) accounts, according to a...

November 28, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While two-thirds of plan sponsors are still not offering investment advice to their participants, the smallest plan sponsors were more than twice as...

November 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Board of the Pennsylvania State Employees' Retirement System (SERS) has joined officials in New York, North Carolina, Florida, and California in adopting...

November 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal jury has awarded an insulin-dependent diabetic compensatory damages and back pay, after he was denied employment as a baggage handler.

October 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has backed a decision by a pension plan administrator to deny preretirement survivor income benefits to a woman who had...

October 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Supreme Court justices have agreed to decide exactly who is an "employee" for the purposes of determining whether small firms are subject...

October 16, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors at small and medium sized firms can now tap into The Plan Advisor Series I from Transamerica Retirement Services.

October 16, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - Travelers Insurance has launched a Web site that gives injured workers online access to workers' compensation information.

October 16, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - Human resources solutions provider, Tesseract Corporation has introduced a total benefits management solution for Third Party Administrators (TPAs) with the aim of streamlining administration...

October 16, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - TeamVest, a provider of defined contribution plan recordkeeping, administration, and investment management services will merge into the Newport Group, a national consulting, asset management...

October 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The first auction of options on the government's release of US Nonfarm Payroll date for September 2002 saw investors place 120 limit orders...

April 10, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Tax-exempt accounts, such as 401(k)s and pensions, are expected to gain a larger share of the separately managed account market over the next...

April 10, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - There were more job seekers - and they were looking longer - in the first quarter, according to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray &...

October 16, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors who use Workscape Inc, a provider of Internet-based human capital management software, may find the RFP process a little less onerous following...