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July 13, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Small business owners are feeling pressured, but while less than 10% are planning to hire new workers, the number of job cuts in...

July 13, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Association for Investment Management Research (AIMR) says it will issue "Research Objectivity Standards" in three months, offering a best practices guideline for...

July 13, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Trust Corp., an investment firm catering to the super wealthy, will pay a $10 million fine for patchy record keeping, lax internal...

July 13, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Ways and Means has postponed indefinitely the Subcommittee hearing on Patients' Bill of Rights, previously...

July 1, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) has unveiled a new national sales portal designed to make finding health insurance purchasing information less troublesome.

July 1, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The National Association of Security Dealers (NASD) has officially launched its new corporate bond reporting system, offering plan sponsors and other institutional investors...

June 13, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mellon Global Securities Lending has launched Mellon I-Bid, a Web-based auction technology, as it becomes the latest and the first financial services provider...

June 13, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A day before senior administration officials were scheduled to meet with the chief sponsors of a patients' bill of rights, Representative Charlie Norwood...

June 13, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has ruled that Seattle-based drugstore chain Bartell Drug must include contraceptives for women in its employee health insurance plan --...

June 13, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two-thirds of finance pros say that FAS 133 has imposed an excessive burden on corporate derivative reporting, leading them to reduce the use...

June 13, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - American Express launched a new Web site hub, providing access to news and information from several of American Express Corporate Financial Services' business...

May 1, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Delaware judge has dismissed a lawsuit by dissident shareholder Walter Hewlett challenging Hewlett-Packard's acquisition of Compaq Computer - but noted concerns about...

May 1, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Raleigh, North Carolina insurance broker has expanded its employee benefits service line by agreeing to acquire a benefits consulting shop.

May 1, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Clients of CIBC Mellon could benefit from the company's latest enhancement to its Workbench program.

May 25, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors now have an easy way to "nudge" procrastinating employees into active participation. American Express Retirement Services' new Quick Enrollment product was...

May 1, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors and participants in retirement plans at Merrill Lynch can now get broader access to plan information from the company's Web site,...

May 1, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Invesmart has unwrapped two products for the defined benefit market - featuring an ability for plan sponsors and participants to obtain real-time calculations...

May 1, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Neuberger Berman Inc. launched the Neuberger Berman Real Estate Fund, a mutual fund that seeks capital growth and current income by investing in...

May 1, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Massachusetts software maker has released an online asset allocation calculator, which it says is based on a new model for choosing investments.

April 1, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New research on the practice of staggering the terms of corporate boards finds that it slashed shareholder returns as much as 10% for...