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October 15, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - Slumping portfolio values and a declining interest rate benchmark have plan sponsors reeling from the one-two punch of higher pension liabilities and declining asset...

October 15, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service has declared October 27 ?assistance day? for Silicon Valley taxpayers who can't afford to pay the tax bills stemming from...

October 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has agreed to pump $264 million into its pension plan as part of an agreement with the federal pension insurer.

October 15, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A £130 million negligence case brought by Unilever's pension fund against Merrill Lynch's Mercury Asset Management has finally gone to trial in the...

October 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two of the most active pension reformers in Congress have unveiled their second piece of legislation that would in this case raise the...

October 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - On the day a pension reform proposal was introduced in Congress to postpone required minimum distributions (RMD), the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) published...

September 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A long-term disability insurance administrator was out-of-bounds when it denied coverage to a Minnesota internist physician who was working part time while getting...

September 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has sanctioned a class action suit against the nation's largest employer for failure to offer health insurance coverage of birth...

September 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Financial advisors would rather spend their time working with plan sponsors as investment professionals - not clean-up artists - according to a new...

September 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A New York investment firm has come up with a new way to help firms cash in on projected income streams from trademarks,...

September 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Stillwell Financial has tapped a new chief executive officer to take charge of its operations that are newly merged with its flagship Janus...

September 27, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Diversified Investment Advisors has added a personalized rate of return to all quarterly participant statements for its defined contribution plan clients, including 403(b)s,...

September 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Online advice provider Financial Engines (FE) is providing financial advisors with focused advice modules allowing the advisor to more easily provide a recommended...

September 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Investors contemplating a college savings investment in the Tar Heel state now have a new stock fund option with a principal and earnings...

September 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The RiskMetrics Group has added data on Japanese firms to its Credit Grades product.

September 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has given employers with underfunded pension plans some clarification in the proper way to communicate with participants.

September 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In yet another sign of the softening economy, the federal government's pension insurer has picked up responsibility for the underfunded pension plan of...

August 15, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Their new joint venture with German state-owned Landesbank Hessen-Thueringen (Helaba) will provide a new distribution channel for Northern Trust's asset management products, according...

August 15, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - UBS Asset Management has completed its acquisition of RT Capital Management, the institutional pension fund management division of the Royal Bank of Canada.

August 15, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) ? Despite rising employment, the number of workers killed on the job dropped about 2% last year according to the Labor Department.