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December 10, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Virginia Governor-elect Mark Warner on Monday named William Leighty, director of the Virginia Retirement System (VRS), as his new chief of staff.

October 12, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - California Medicare recipients can sue their HMOs if they are wrongly denied necessary medical treatment, the US Supreme Court ruled as the justices...

October 12, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The trial of a waitress who has sued her employer for allegedly breaking a promise could wind up today in Panama City, Florida.

October 12, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a case brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), US Supreme Court justices argued amongst themselves over the government's role in...

October 12, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Failing a last minute respite, the long anticipated lawsuit between one of the UK's largest pension funds and a leading fund manager could...

October 12, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors in continental Europe are increasingly outsourcing the money management function, a recent study by Greenwich Associates finds.

October 24, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Merrill Lynch will outsource the recordkeeping of its small-market defined contribution plans (those with less than $3 million in assets) to BISYS, effective...

December 10, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Brushing up on a professional skill or going back to school for a higher academic degree are still the keys to getting an...

December 10, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employee health-care costs have skyrocketed 11.2% in 2001 and employers can look forward to more of the same in coming years, a Mercer...

September 12, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Many of the financial services firms that until yesterday morning operated from the World Trade Center in New York have put their contingency...

September 12, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Morgan Stanley, the World Trade Center's largest tenant, has "limited information" about the fate of its employees based at the towers following the...

September 12, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - When it rains, it pours, they say -- and the nation's largest employer finds itself presented with yet another employee-based lawsuit.

August 24, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal court has ordered Ameritech to pay $175.7 million to 17,000 retired workers whose lump sum pension benefits were miscalculated.

July 12, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fifth Third Bank's Retirement Plan Services Group has launched an online retirement planning guide, giving participants integrated access to retirement plan accounts and...

July 12, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Congresswoman Nancy L. Johnson (R-CT), Chairman, Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Ways and Means, has announced that the subcommittee will hold...

July 24, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - PricewaterhouseCoopers' will offer Standard & Poor's education and advice services to participants in retirement plans administered by its Unifi Network.

July 12, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a bid to avoid government interference, or scrutiny from the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), companies buying out portions of other companies,...

July 12, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a move it hopes will garner the attention of pension fund managers, the New York Board of Trade is gearing up to...

July 12, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Young affluent households equipped with a financial plan have average investable assets of $210,000, more than double those without a plan, a recent...

July 24, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - WestAM, the asset management arm of Germany's Westdeutsche Landesbank, is looking to extend its reach into the US market, planning additional aquisitions.