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July 2, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors at small and medium size companies in New York State now have the option of using Transamerica Retirement Services as their...

July 2, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Sponsors of 403(b) plans can now offer employees a new variable annuity called MassMutual Artistry from MassMutual Financial Group.

July 2, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Vanguard Group plans to launch another exchange-traded fund, the Vanguard Extended Market Index Fund. The fund will track the Wilshire 4500 Completion...

July 2, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New features planned for American Century Investments- Web site allows retail investors to perform account management activities, including redemptions, online.

July 2, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Americans now have $1.8 trillion invested in foreign stock, compared to $198 billion a decade ago.

February 7, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Robert Angelica, chairman and chief executive officer of the AT&T Investment Management Corporation, was elected chairman of the Committee on the Investment of...

February 7, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - American companies announced a record number of layoffs in January, according to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

February 7, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Tight labor markets are apparently resulting in wide differences, both regionally and demographically, in benefit packages.

July 2, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) ? The Senate got to go home for the Fourth of July recess, having passed the amended McCain-Kennedy-Edwards patients' bill of rights by a...

July 14, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The House Ways and Means Committee has approved the Comprehensive Retirement Security and Pension Reform Act. The bill, which now goes to the...

July 2, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has outlined changes to the determination letter process that will allow the agency to better handle the influx...

Few plan sponsors have been as vocal, or as visible, in their commitment to private equity investments as the $170 billion California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS), the...

June 14, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The law firm Sprenger & Lang announced Wednesday that James Mehling, a former Vice President of New York Life Insurance Company, filed a...

February 6, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - E-mail is now being used as a 401(k) educational tool by American Express Retirement Services.

May 2, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pension reform picked up where it left off last year, with overwhelming support in the House of Representatives, despite vigorous debate on the...

May 2, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Bank of New York has linked two of its cash management web sites, expanding options for treasury staffs and institutional investors.

May 2, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Volatile equity markets took a toll on 401(k) plan assets last year, with balances shrinking by $72 billion, losing ground for the first...

May 2, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Responding to customer feedback, Standard Insurance Company has unveiled several enhancements to its Personal Savings Center Web site for retirement plan participants.

May 2, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Baltimore-based ARK Funds now offers four new funds targeted at religious institutional investors, the firm's first foray into socially responsible investments.

May 2, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a bid to simplify the asset allocation process, the Principal Financial Group has launched Lifetime, a new series of funds, allowing retirement...