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April 1, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US government owes a great deal to its workers - $3.6 trillion to cover pension, disability and health care costs for civilian...

January 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Average stock option overhang levels increased to 14.6% in 2000, from 13% the previous year, reversing a five-year trend during which overhang growth...

January 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Demand for technology workers may have slacked off after the boom in the nineties, but human resources professionals should still be keeping their...

April 1, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Illinois overturned a decision by a plan administrator to cut off disability payments to an office clerk after the...

April 13, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - The TIAA-CREF Institute sponsored its first Corporate Governance Forum, where issues related to executive pay were up for discussion.

April 1, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Six out of 10 clients of an investment company that specializes in the Catholic institutional market, say abortion is the issue they were...

April 1, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Arthur Andersen says its insurance carrier is unable to pay a promised $217 million to settle lawsuits filed after the 1999 collapse of...

March 13, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Web-based human resource service provider HRPath has formed a strategic partnership to offer The Online 401(k) program to its clients.

March 13, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Participants that save more and have larger balances are more likely to embrace the Internet as an information channel, according to a new...

March 13, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Principal Financial Group and Ameritrade have joined forces to offer self-directed brokerage account services to 1.4 million retirement plan members of The...

March 1, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - ING US Financial Services has rebranded its Pilgrim and Aetna Funds and its variably annuity sub accounts under the name ING Funds.

March 1, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Investors may be able to get a clearer picture of the risks they are assuming with certain investments following the launch of a...

March 1, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - CM Investment Management Inc. has renamed 29 Merrill Lynch Mutual Funds as the Renaissance Mutual Funds.

March 13, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Poor stock market returns cut into pension funding levels by 10-15% last year, according to a new Towers Perrin report.

January 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The number of jobs lost last year was the highest since Challenger, Gray and Christmas started keeping count in 1993, according to data...

January 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Almost three-quarters of American savers with a workplace retirement plan will likely increase their contributions in 2002 following the passage of the Economic...

March 1, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - For the second time in as many days, President Bush pushed the notion of allowing Americans workers to invest part of their Social...

March 1, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Bancorp Asset Management Inc. will offer a national 529 college-savings plan in conjunction with the state of Oregon.

January 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Former state Treasurer Paul Silvester turned himself in to authorities in Hartford after his bail was revoked and a federal judge ordered him...

January 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) The ranks of the unemployed swelled for the second consecutive week, as measured by the number of first time unemployment benefits claims, which rose...