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August 2, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Eaton Vance has signed a definitive agreement to acquire 70% of Atlanta Capital Management Company for $75 million - a move that comes...

August 2, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Manulife Financial has unveiled new online tools that will allow retirement plan participants to download transaction information from their 401(k) account into into...

August 2, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Principal Financial Group and Golden Retirement Resources have teamed up to launch a program aimed at helping retirees manage their retirement income.

August 2, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - GoldK, a retirement plan provider, has established a partnership with 401Konnect, an online marketplace designed to automate the marketing and sales of retirement...

August 2, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Ford has selected Fidelity Investments to administer the automaker's $40 billion defined-benefit pension plan, servicing about 300,000 active employees and retirees, according to...

August 2, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) ? President Bush and Representative Charles Norwood (R-Georgia) say they have reached agreement on the approach for the passage of a patients' bill of...

May 10, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Standard&Poor's expects to hear soon whether the Department of Labor grants it a Prohibited Transaction Exemption (PTE) for its retirement investment advice software.

July 2, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -Even as the US Senate approved a patients' bill of rights, the US Supreme Court said it plans to decide whether states may provide...

July 2, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors at small and medium size companies in New York State now have the option of using Transamerica Retirement Services as their...

July 2, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Sponsors of 403(b) plans can now offer employees a new variable annuity called MassMutual Artistry from MassMutual Financial Group.

July 2, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Vanguard Group plans to launch another exchange-traded fund, the Vanguard Extended Market Index Fund. The fund will track the Wilshire 4500 Completion...

July 2, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New features planned for American Century Investments- Web site allows retail investors to perform account management activities, including redemptions, online.

July 2, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Americans now have $1.8 trillion invested in foreign stock, compared to $198 billion a decade ago.

February 7, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Robert Angelica, chairman and chief executive officer of the AT&T Investment Management Corporation, was elected chairman of the Committee on the Investment of...

February 7, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - American companies announced a record number of layoffs in January, according to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

February 7, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Tight labor markets are apparently resulting in wide differences, both regionally and demographically, in benefit packages.

July 2, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) ? The Senate got to go home for the Fourth of July recess, having passed the amended McCain-Kennedy-Edwards patients' bill of rights by a...

July 14, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The House Ways and Means Committee has approved the Comprehensive Retirement Security and Pension Reform Act. The bill, which now goes to the...

July 2, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has outlined changes to the determination letter process that will allow the agency to better handle the influx...

Few plan sponsors have been as vocal, or as visible, in their commitment to private equity investments as the $170 billion California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS), the...