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November 6, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The defined contribution balance "gender gap" between the sexes has narrowed somewhat in recent years, due largely to increased savings of middle-aged women.

May 11, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A retirement security crisis is looming if the decline in defined benefit plans is not reversed, said David Strauss, Executive Director of the...

May 11, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - CIEBA, an organization representing large corporate pension funds, Wednesday announced that it has affiliated with the Association for Financial Professionals (AFP), formerly the...

May 11, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - DLJdirect is entering the self-directed brokerage 401(k) business, via a partnership with Nationwide Financial, offering DLJdirect online brokerage services to participants in employee...

April 11, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A last-minute addition to a pending bankruptcy reform bill could put millions of Americans' retirement savings at risk.

November 3, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A growing number (39%) of Americans believe health care has worsened in the past five years, but 43% of those that have actually...

November 2, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - General Motors and DaimlerChrysler's Chrysler unit are the latest to connect their employees with the Internet, as part of a broad deal with...

November 2, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Participants are getting more choices, with 12.4 the average number of investment options now offered according to a new survey that also revealed...

October 31, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While higher level strategic responsibilities are being added to the HR professional's job, over half (56.7%) still cite retention and recruitment as their...

October 31, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Jude Metcalfe has been named President and CEO of Dreyfus Retirement Services, and will also manage Mellon subsidiary Buck Consultant's Administrative Services Group....

October 30, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mutual fund assets slipped 2.6% to $7.28 trillion in September, according to the Investment Company Institute.

October 10, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Today Christopher J. Ailman will take the helm as Chief Investment Officer of the $116 billion California State Teachers Retirement System. As he...

October 27, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Chicago City Treasurer Miriam Santos abruptly resigned from her office today, just two weeks before her scheduled retrial on charges of mail fraud...

October 27, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mutual funds could see more money withdrawn than invested for the first time since the Russian debt default in August 1998, according to...

October 26, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors are more likely to have an investment policy, conduct annual plan reviews and condition fees on performance, according to a new...

October 25, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Buoyed by strong markets, retirement assets of state and local government employees hit a record high of $1.9 trillion in 1999, up more...

October 24, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers should be planning for a 10-13% increase in healthcare costs next year, the third year of double-digit increases in a row. Employers...

October 22, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In the midst of a national debate over healthcare concerns, a letter suggesting IBM might decrease retiree health care coverage has stirred up...

October 23, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Unscheduled employee absenteeism cost employers $610/employee last year, up slightly from $602 a year ago, despite a drop in the average rate of...

October 23, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Dot-coms cut jobs at a record pace in the past month, and were up 18% from a month ago according to outplacement firm...