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April 24, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Tuesday, the eyes of the pension industry will be on the results of an IBM-employee-backed shareholder resolution urging that IBM provide fair and...

April 12, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) Shareholders of the Strong Family of Funds will get to vote on a new advisory agreement between each fund and Strong Capital Management, which...

March 12, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Real estate is now the best performing UK asset class over both one year and three years following the equity market tumble last...

March 12, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Congressmen Rob Portman (R-Oh) and Ben Cardin (D-Md.) will re-introduce pension reform legislation in the House of Representatives March 14.

March 12, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More than half of employer respondents to a new Hewitt survey have considered, or are considering, adding a self-directed brokerage window for their...

March 12, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Third Circuit has reinstated for trial the claims of some 20,000 Unisys retirees, which had been dismissed by the district court in...

March 12, 2001 (HedgeWorld.com)—The Bank for International Settlements this week released a report on the use of collateral to manage counterparty risk in terms of creditworthiness and liquidity.

February 12, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The worldwide expansion of defined contribution pension plans has been slower than anticipated, but still grew at 17% over the past four years,...

February 12, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Union Bank of California has launched a truly self-directed brokerage account for 401(k) participants, allowing them to choose their own broker, as well...

February 12, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Smaller plans with a preference for third-party administrators can now tap into the expertise of MassMutual Retirement Services.

November 30, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US mutual fund assets went up by 3.1% to reach $6.616 trillion in October, according to figures from the Investment Company Institute (ICI).

November 30, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A total of 212,695 workers lost their jobs in October as a result of 1,816 mass layoffs in the US - the highest...

November 30, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - President Bush's Social Security Commission will propose shrinking benefits for most future retirees, while allowing them to invest part of their payroll taxes...

November 30, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Some 61,000 employees at Eastman Kodak, who hold stock options with exercise prices so far above the current market price as to make...

November 29, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -The lines for first time unemployment benefits grew 12% longer in the week ending November 24, according to figures released by the US Department...

November 29, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Prior to the 2001 economic slowdown, the number of employers offering health insurance grew, pushing the numbers of the uninsured down to 15.9%,...

November 29, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Labor Secretary Elaine Chao announced that Steven Kandarian has been tapped to head up the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC).

November 29, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - Archipelago and REDIBook will merge their stock trading systems in a bid to create the largest alternative stock trading network by share volume, according...

October 25, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Conference Board's monthly Help-Wanted Index, a measure of employment advertisements, dipped by a point, to settle at 52 in September, a 34%...

November 28, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Principal Financial Group's board has elected J. Barry Griswell, the group's president and chief executive officer, as chairman.