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July 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The costs of workers compensation claims are accelerating, with costs in California outpacing all other states researched in a recent eight-state study.

July 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) The median retirement age in the US is falling perhaps encouraged by increasingly generous early retirement provisions in private sector defined benefit plans, according...

July 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) ? Ann C. Gersie of The Principal Financial Group, was elected president of the National Institute of Pension Administrators (NIPA).

July 19, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - Initial unemployment insurance claims finally dipped, but the good news was offset by data showing that the number of people claiming continuing benefits had...

July 18, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Despite recent bad press on shrinking 401(k) balances brought on by a volatile market, most people still find them to be the best...

July 18, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The much-awaited June CPI figure, released today by the Department of Labor, showed US inflation rising by 0.2%, slightly higher than market expectations,...

July 18, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The advantages of investing in actively managed funds in a bear market may be overstated, since index funds perform about as well as...

July 18, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The economic slowdown has taken its toll on the number of mutual funds, which shrank for the first time in 10 years, according...

July 18, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Recruiters can get a little help with their talent searches and hiring process with Hire.com's new applicant tracking solution, Hiring Center.

July 17, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Recruiters can now fill their $100,000 job vacancies using My Executive Profile, a new database of executive candidates from online career planning and...

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) - 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.

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).