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April 20, 2001 - (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fully-insured premiums increased in 2000 for both long-term and short-term disability insurance, while sales in Administrative Services Only contracts declined for both...

April 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tommy Thompson has launched a national campaign to encourage organ, tissue, marrow and blood donations, working through...

April 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Automatically enrolling employees in 401(k) plans appears to increase both long- and short-term participation patterns, according to a new study from the Profit-Sharing/401(k)...

April 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Norman Bobins, president and chief executive of LaSalle Bank, and Diane Swonk, chief economist at Bank One Corp., are being considered for an...

April 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Today saw the launch of the FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index, a capped, tradable index featuring the largest, most liquid Chinese equities.

April 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A newly released survey of nearly 1,000 hedge funds reveals that Morgan Stanley, Bear Stearns, and Goldman Sachs rank as the largest prime...

April 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Initial unemployment insurance claims moderated slightly in the week ending April 14, falling to 385,000 from the previous week's five year high of...

April 19, 2001 - (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Working parents appear to be granted more leniency regarding their working conditions compared to those without children, according to a new survey...

April 18, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The CSFB/Tremont Hedge Fund Index dipped a comparatively small -0.3% in March, according to Roland Lorenzo, president and chief operating officer of Credit...

April 18, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mercer's latest National Survey of Employer-Sponsored Health Plans shows that health benefit costs for active employees increased by 8.1% in 2000, outpacing the...

April 18, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Shifts in work and personal life balance and changes in society are reflected in the results of the Society for Human Resource Management's...

April 18, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors across the country could get a peek ahead at next year's healthcare costs, through the eyes of the nation's largest public...

April 18, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a surprise move, the Federal Reserve has cut short-term US interest rates a half percentage point to try to spark the nation's...

April 17, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Industries with large minority work forces are trailing those dominated by whites in the percentage of workers enrolling in employer-paid health insurance.

April 17, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Almost half of the 525 employees, polled in a recent survey by staffing firm, OfficeTeam, cite their boss as the "go to" person...

April 17, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fidelity lost one of its stars yesterday, as the mutual fund industry continues to lose talented managers to the allure of running their...

April 17, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Equity income funds may provide a safe harbor in the current market turbulence, according to Standard & Poor's Fund Services Research.

April 16, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Labor Secretary Elaine Chao failed to list her position on the board of privately held Multa Communications Corporation (Multacom) on her financial...

April 16, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Sun Microsystems has toughened up its existing employee review process and for the first time will offer severance packages to employees who cannot...

April 16, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While more employees were covered by long-term care coverage last year, fewer new employers embraced the benefit in the face of rising premiums.