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August 2, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) ? President Bush and Representative Charles Norwood (R-Georgia) say they have reached agreement on the approach for the passage of a patients' bill of...

May 10, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Standard&Poor's expects to hear soon whether the Department of Labor grants it a Prohibited Transaction Exemption (PTE) for its retirement investment advice software.

August 2, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Broader access to participant investment advice took another step forward Thursday, as the Employer-Employee Relations (EER) Subcommittee approved the Retirement Security Advice Act...

February 8, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employees who receive personalized statements contribute 0.85% more of their salary to the 401(k) plan on average, compared with employees who don't receive...

February 8, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The average 401(k) account balance rose 18% in 1999, buoyed by both contributions and the stock market - but significant gaps remain between...

August 2, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new Vanguard survey of plan sponsor experience with automatic, or negative, enrollment indicates that while the practice can increase participation rates, it...

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...

July 2, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -Even as the US Senate approved a patients' bill of rights, the US Supreme Court said it plans to decide whether states may provide...

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...

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...