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November 5, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - The final 2001 meeting of the Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans will be held on November 14.

November 5, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) ? A plan administrator acted improperly in determining that workers that took an early retirement offer were precluded from also pursuing claims for severance...

November 5, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Senate version of a mental health parity amendment is likely to increase costs - and decrease coverage of mental health treatments, according...

November 17, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Time Warner has settled a lawsuit with the Department of Labor for $5.5 million. The DOL had alleged that Time had illegally denied...

November 5, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Carol Galley, COO of Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (MLIM), formerly Mercury Asset Management, took the stand during Unilever's landmark £130 million negligence suit...

November 17, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Companies with a high percentage of employee stock options usage experience dramatically increased levels of stock price volatility, according to a new study....

May 11, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - June may mark the first quarter in four years in which the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) cut its estimate for jobs created...

May 11, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) Association recently elected Joseph Cabral, CEO of Chatsworth Products, Inc in California, to chair the association.

November 5, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -If only for a month, initial public offerings (IPOs) made a sweet comeback in October.

November 5, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -Plan sponsors are taking steps to help workers overcome common retirement savings mistakes --but those steps appear to be coming up short, according to...

November 17, 2000 (HedgeWorld.com) Richard Jaycobs, the former chief technology officer for Paul Tudor Jones trading firm, is gearing up to launch of a Web-based futures-and-derivatives platform called...

November 5, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - ING completed the merger of the ING Direct Funds and ING Advisor Funds into a single ING fund family.

May 10, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Bush administration has only just appointed Harvey Pitt to the position of chairman at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), but already...

October 18, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - European firms continued to "buy American," as Nicholas-Applegate and Alleghany Asset Management found themselves under new management this morning, the latest in a...

October 5, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - While the events of September 11 have not made much of an impact on the saving and spending habits of most Americans, it has...

May 10, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Most 401(k) participants plan to keep to their current investment strategies and almost a third will increase the amount of their contribution, a...

May 10, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The number of Americans claiming unemployment benefits for the first time plummeted by 41,000 from the record highs of previous weeks.

October 5, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Federal Thrift Retirement Board, which oversees the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP), finalized a rule allowing uniformed service members to participate in the program.

October 5, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Correll Co., a recordkeeping and administrative services provider, developed a master defined contribution plan for Professional Employer Organizations (PEOs).

May 10, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Today's college graduates won't be disappointed with their first paycheck, according to a survey which shows starting salaries expectations in line with real...