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March 5, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A further sign that the pace of layoffs is abating, planned job cuts were down almost 40% in February, to levels not seen...

May 15, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Corporate secretaries could benefit from the increased flexibility of new rules from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that allow registered transfer agents...

May 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - America's largest accounting firm is going ahead with plans to spin off its consulting practice - but the proceeds could be directed toward...

May 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Seed money for startups continued to dry up in the first quarter of 2002, continuing a trend that began two years ago, a...

May 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Participants in retirement plans at Fidelity Investments may soon be able to monitor all of their investments from one Web site - regardless...

May 15, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Participants in 401(k) plans with self-directed brokerage options are more likely to want assistance in choosing among investments, a survey of plan participants...

May 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Corporate executives looking for more impact from their human resources operations on their bottom lines may now have a better way to measure...

May 15, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Institutional investors could begin trading in single-stock futures before Labor Day, through a joint venture of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago...

May 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Companies which publicly discuss their labor practices can be sued if they lie in the process, the California Supreme Court ruled in a...

May 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Researchers at the prestigious London School of Economics (LSE) will kick off a five-year research project into the state of savings rates and...

April 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A much ballyhooed agreement brokered by the US Department (DoL) to install new management over Enron's retirement plans is apparently unraveling.

April 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The UK's stakeholder pension program, touted as the solution to the nation's savings shortfall, is failing to live up to the government's expectations,...

April 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Capital Resource Advisors may have gotten less than it bargained for with its recent acquisition of BARRA RogersCasey (BRC) - as a number...

April 27, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - American Century entered the online participant advice arena today with its Fund Advisor, offering free, fund-specific investment advice.

March 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Stock funds continued to suffer negative returns in February, with the average diversified US equity mutual fund falling about 2.9% during the month.

April 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As part of the Bush administration's New Freedom Initiative, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has introduced a series of workshops.

April 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - State Street Bank and Trust Company wants to reconsider its agreement with Enron to assume oversight of the company's three pension plans, in...

March 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US workers, generally happy to see the demise of the suit and tie, are quick to list the benefits of the shift towards...

March 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internet sector job scene continued improving in February with the amount of announced job cuts well down from January 2002.

March 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mellon Financial Corporation is changing the name of its human-resources services provider from Mellon Employee Benefit Solutions to Mellon HR Solutions.