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October 29, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao has scheduled the second of the three National Summits on Retirement Savings for early next year.

October 29, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - If you're nice to your employees, chances are you're also a business success.

October 29, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Segal Company forecasts that retail prescription drug coverage should experience a 19.4% trend rate increase for active members and retirees under age...

October 26, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US organizations will spend nearly $57 billion on training this year, up 5% from the $54 billion spent last year, according to Training...

October 26, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Barclays Global Investors has announced that three international regional iShares exchange funds (ETFs) have begun trading on the American Stock Exchange.

October 26, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Some 1,316 mass layoff events, involving 50 or more employees, occurred in September, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

October 25, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Almost of plan sponsors in a recent Cigna survey feel unprepared to provide their participants with retirement planning, at a time when participants...

October 25, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - The number of Americans remaining on the unemployment rolls in the week ending October 13, the latest week for which data is available, surged...

October 25, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - If you are a sponsor considering the addition of some new funds to your plan's offerings, checking out Doug Fabian's Lemon List might...

October 25, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Edmund Jenkins, chairman of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), will retire at the end of his five-year term on June 30 next...

October 25, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has appointed Stephen Cutler as Enforcement Director.

October 25, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The number of employees who telecommute in the US increased by almost 17% to 28.8 million over the last year, according to a...

October 25, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) The employment cost index, a gauge of what employers pay in wages, salaries and benefits, increased by 1% in the third quarter of this year,...

October 24, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - Participants aren't taking advantage of a number of Medicare education tools, according to a report by Mathematica Policy Research Group.

October 24, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - Securian Financial Group has named Patrick A Mazorol chief executive of Securian Trust Company, a unit to be formed following Securian?s purchase of the...

October 24, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The September terrorist attacks brought the economy to a standstill followed by a short period of reduced economic activity, according to the Federal...

October 23, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - White, overweight, working women, earn less money than their thinner counterparts, according to new research from Cornell University.

October 22, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - Ford Motor Company informed its employees via e-mail that its Model E employee computer plan has been discontinued, according to a report in the...

October 22, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Assets invested in exchange traded funds (ETF) totaled $64.35 billion at the close of September, down dramatically from $72.08 billion a month earlier,...

October 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Even though total US pension fund assets fell by just over 7%, the largest institutional funds aren't making major changes to their long-term...