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December 13, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors looking to improve plan satisfaction should encourage participants to set retirement goals, a new study reports.

January 12, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Expanding telecommuting could improve productivity - and help workers better balance work and family demands, according to a report just released from the...

December 13, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration has published the Year 2000 Form M-1 annual report for multiple employer welfare arrangements (MEWAs).

November 1, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - Ameritrade Holding Corporation and GMAC Bank have teamed up to provide a suite of online brokerage and financial capabilities to employees, retirees, shareholders and...

November 13, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Wachovia has unveiled new enhancements to its Internet-based Wachovia Connection Plus, and now offers interactive wireless access and proactive notification.

November 1, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Chrysler will suspend its already trimmed 401(k) matching contributions in a cost-cutting measure and also plans to increase the number of jobs targeted...

November 13, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's largest public pension system has officially - and dramatically - cut back on previously announced plans to invest as much as...

November 13, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Standard & Poor's and PricewaterhouseCoopers' Unifi Network have rolled out their first joint alliance product, a one-stop retirement planning Web site.

November 13, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - FleetBoston's Fleet Retirement Plan Services has selected Financial Engines to provide investment advice to participants of their defined contribution clients.

November 1, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - First Union Benefit Services Group (BSG) has launched a new product, the Evergreen Connect k, an internet-based 401(k) product.

November 1, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Wendy Mayall, chief investment officer of Unilever Superannuation Fund (USF) was on the defensive, in the group's £130 million negligence suit against Merrill...

November 1, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Chances that the US Supreme Court will use a long-running Colorado affirmative action dispute to decide the issue's constitutionality appeared to fizzle Wednesday...

November 1, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - AMIDEX Fund's Cancer Innovations & Healthcare Mutual Fund, the first index-based mutual fund focused on cancer cure companies, is open for business.

November 1, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - Unilever Superannuation Fund (USF)'s CIO, Wendy Mayall, failed to reign in the rogue portfolio manager at the center of its £130 negligence case against...

October 13, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors now have online access to peer data from Judy Diamond Associates, which has just launched JDA Online.

October 13, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - On Monday the nation's largest public pension fund will vote to fire a number of investment managers in its first international equity manager...

October 1, 2001 (PLANSPONSOr.com) - The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has backed off proposals to increase capital set aside requirements for banks as well as the amount...

October 1, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has decided against the use of an 'extraordinary item' treatment for losses incurred in connection with the recent...

October 13, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors now have an additional investment "option" as the American Stock Exchange (AMEX) begins trading options on selected exchange-traded funds (ETFs).

January 10, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Heidi Miller, the former chief financial officer of Priceline.com and Citigroup, is joining Marsh & McLennan as vice chairman of its Marsh Inc....