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December 5, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Bank of America has opted to outsource many of its human resource functions for its 150,000 employees - and expects to realize a...

May 12, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - CalPERS, the nation's largest pension system, is continuing the trend toward more alternative investments by considering to transfer about $7 billion of its...

December 5, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US institutional investor assets have nearly tripled over the past decade to $18.6 trillion, and control nearly half (49.6%) of the US equity...

April 12, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Showing its muscle as institutional investor, CalPERS is withholding its 1% proxy voting block of 9.6 million shares from re-electing Bank of America's...

December 2, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Americans - including pension funds and institutional investors - invested more money in European stocks last quarter than any other in the past...

December 1, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A group of investment firms have agreed to acquire from Datek most of its online broker, Datek Online, and its alternative stock-trading platform,...

December 1, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nearly a quarter of large employers (22%) surveyed offer domestic partner benefits, more than twice as many as the 10% in 1997, according...

December 1, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Unless Congress intervenes, the medical savings account (MSA) program is scheduled to expire on December 31, leaving self-employed and smaller employers without a...

November 30, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nearly 2/3 of women expect to work in retirement - and 4% never expect to retire, according to the 2000 Women's Retirement Confidence...

November 29, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers and employees have different benefit priorities - with employees overwhelmingly concerned about retirement issues and employers focused on health care costs, according...

November 29, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Round-the-clock childcare will be available to more than 300,000 employees of Ford and Visteon Corporation in 15 states beginning next year.

November 29, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Equity mutual fund assets slipped 2.5% in October, despite a net cash inflow of $19.07 billion as volatile markets took their toll.

November 21, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The world's first bond exchange traded funds (ETFs) will begin trading on Thursday on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

November 20, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US companies spent $54 billion on formal training this year, with nearly two-thirds (64%) dedicated to the salaries of in-house trainers, according to...

November 20, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Health plan workers received median base pay raises of 5.4% this year, compared with just 3.6% for a broader group of health care...

November 17, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) has named Helen G. Drinan, SPHR, as its incoming President and Chief Executive Officer. She will...

November 16, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plans that provide Internet access to participants may experience a dramatic increase in trading volumes - in some cases more than doubling the...

November 16, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employees are increasingly "giving" at the office - and then some, according to a new report. Forty percent put in overtime or take...

November 16, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Average monthly premiums for state employee HMO's rose 9.3% last year, compared with just 4.7% for point of service (POS) plans, according to...

November 15, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - October was a rocky month for the markets, and hedge funds were not spared the turmoil, according to the CSFB/Tremont Hedge Fund Index,...