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May 4, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A tight labor market is forcing employers to get creative in designing a better workplace. Workers are demanding - and getting - more...

May 1, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Supreme Court ruled Monday that public employees who agree to take time off instead of overtime pay can be forced to take...

May 1, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors now have a benchmark for social investing fund performance, the Calvert Group's Calvert Social Index, a broad-based benchmark of large, U.S.-based...

April 30, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Once again pension plan retirees are standing up to management - and the fate of a multi-billion dollar merger may hang in the...

April 28, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - It's a pull every top plan sponsor feels, the riches and freedom to be had in the private sector. So also for Patrick...

April 27, 2000 - (PLANSPONSOR.com) The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has endorsed a new SunAmerica/ADP alliance as the preferred pension provider for its nearly 3 million small business...

April 25, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A class action suit starts in Minneapolis Thursday over whether NCR had the right to reduce health subsidies and eliminate Medicare supplementation to...

April 24, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Lucent Technologies announced Monday that Deborah Hopkins, chief financial officer at Boeing, will become its CFO, effective immediately. Hopkins will be responsible for...

April 20, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In the third high-level defection to the private sector from the California public pension fund system in a few months, Bob Boldt, senior...

April 19, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - CalPERS Wednesday said it needed more time to consider the impact of doubling co-payments for office visits and brand-name prescription drugs for the...

April 18, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Miriam Santos, the Chicago city treasurer who recently won her appeal against a corruption conviction, returned to her old post Monday morning, the...

April 13, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Patrick Mitchell, chief investment officer of the California State Teachers' Retirement System, has resigned effective July 15 to pursue other career interests. It's...

April 13, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Frank Russell Company introduced three new equity indexes this week. The Tacoma, WA, investment management and advisory firm, said in a statement these...

April 13, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Central banker Alan Greenspan Thursday suggested policymakers allow the proliferating financial exchanges to centralize, because "in times of stress, liquidity simply may not...

December 4, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Participant services are once again at the top of plan sponsor hiring considerations, but quality of plan sponsor services was a close second,...

December 4, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Merrill Lynch has added Speech-recognition to its 401(k) Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system, allowing participants to access information and initiate transactions by speaking...

April 11, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Alan Greenspan, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Tuesday said that he expects job anxiety to stay high, with the rapid pace of...

October 4, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nearly five thousand pensioners have been reconnected with their "missing" pensions totaling some $10 million during the past year, thanks to the Pension...

October 4, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - InvestLink Technologies has integrated Standard & Poor's Web-based education and advice services with their recordkeeping system, TotalServiceManager.

October 4, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new banking combination could offer additional choices for plan sponsors, as Firstar and US Bancorp have agreed to merge in a stock...