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July 17, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Amid a shaky market and economic slowdown, Americans have more faith in their retirement planning than they did during the highs of 1999,...

July 16, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Less than half (43%) of middle-market companies currently offer stock options to their employees, just outnumbering the 39% that have no plans to...

July 16, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Credit Suisse First Boston Tremont Hedge Fund Index increased by 0.6% in June, with emerging market investing once again the top strategy...

July 16, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Larry Zimpleman, senior vice president at the Principal Financial Group, will take over responsibility for the group?s retirement and investor services operations, once...

July 13, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Usage of the Internet at work increased 23% in the past year, according to Nielsen/NetRatings.

July 12, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) ? Credit Suisse has replaced Allen Wheat as head of Credit Suisse First Boston with former Morgan Stanley Dean Witter president John Mack.

July 12, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The weekly initial unemployment insurance claims figure reached a nine-year high of 445,000 for the week ending July 7 as the pace of...

December 7, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - TD Asset Management launched the first Canadian style-based exchange-traded funds (ETFs).

December 7, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Retirement plan participants could have to pay state income tax next year on money contributed to their plan on a federal tax-deferred basis....

December 19, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Participants now have a special voice for their benefits concerns, the newly created Office of Participant Assistance and Communications.

December 7, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pyramid Digital Solutions, a provider of software solutions for the retirement industry, has unveiled a new product that addresses the problem of converting...

December 7, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan Sponsors at New York firms with between five and 500 employees, can now access Nationwide Financial's The Best of America Gourp Pension Series...

December 19, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors can have it their way, with a new customizable Web site from American Express Retirement Services.

July 12, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Ford has decided to change its controversial performance evaluation system that has set off a series of age and reverse discrimination bias suits.

July 12, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers may have another reason to encourage employees to stay fit, trim and healthy that $128 billion annual tab for workplace injuries.

November 7, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - 1Point Administrative Services has created the SafeSolo 401k Plan, a Safe Harbor plan for small employers concerned about the cost and complexity of administering...

November 7, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - Although professional investors want more detail and clarity in financial statements, and recognize the limitations of pro forma results, they still consider such reporting...

November 7, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - Waste Management Inc. has agreed to pay $457 million to settle a class-action lawsuit led by the Connecticut Treasury, filed after an accounting scandal...

November 7, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Ways & Means Committee approved the Retirement Security Advice Act authored by Education & the Workforce Chairman John Boehner (R-Ohio), by a vote...

November 7, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -- A judge presiding over a discrimination suit filed by African-American workers at the Adams Mark hotel chain denied their petition to file a...