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Administration | March 11th, 2003

Endowments Continue Focus on Alternative Investments

November 27, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Asset allocation is being steered to alternative investments, best practice benchmarks are evolving, and technology is changing the endowment business - these are...

Administration | March 11th, 2003

Endowments Continue Focus on Alternative Investments

November 27, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Asset allocation is being steered to alternative investments, best practice benchmarks are evolving, and technology is changing the endowment business - these are...

Compliance | March 11th, 2003

Annuity Tax Structure Legislation Introduced

November 27, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - House Ways & Means Committee members Representatives Phil English (R-Pennsylvania) and Karen Thurman (D - Florida) introduced the Lifetime annuity Payout (LAP) Act,...

Compliance | March 11th, 2003

Hoechst Loses Tax Fight at US Supreme Court

November 27, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Hoechst Celanese Corporation has lost its bid to avoid paying California state taxes on part of a $388-million pension reversion from a qualified...

Compliance | March 11th, 2003

Supreme Court Dismisses Adarand Discrimination Case

November 27, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Supreme Court abandoned plans to rule on a major affirmative action case, concluding that the lawsuit involving a white-owned contractor wasn't...

Products | March 11th, 2003

New Boston Launches New Commingled Real Estate Fund

November 15, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New Boston Fund, Inc. has launched the New Boston Real Estate Investment Fund, L.P (Fund VI), according to a company press release.

Administration | March 11th, 2003

AFP: Companies Looking For More From Treasury

November 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More than seven out of 10 (71%) companies say their treasury department is playing a greater strategic role within their company than just...

Products | March 11th, 2003

Scudder to Offer Morningstar Education, Advice Products

November 15, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Participants in mid-to-large retirement plans at Scudder Retirement Services (SRS) may be getting a helping hand from an online investment-education product.

Administration | March 11th, 2003

SEC: One Quarter of All Mutual Funds Allowed Late Trading

November 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has put a number on the number of fund brokers that allowed late-trading into and out of...

Products | March 11th, 2003

Gevity Giving Computers To Clients

November 15, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Qualified clients of Gevity HR will be receiving computers as encouragement to use Gevity's HR Central.

Administration | March 11th, 2003

Hedge Fund Manager Walks Away over Pricing Imbroglio

November 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A New York hedge fund manager stepped down Friday after butting heads with colleagues about the valuing of certain investments.

Products | March 11th, 2003

Guardian Site Gets Facelift

November 27, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Guardian Life Insurance Company has given its Group Pensions Web site a facelift.

Administration | March 11th, 2003

Study: Overall Reluctance to Use 529s

November 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The market downturn created a "reluctance" to use 529 college savings accounts for the costs of higher education, in part because of overall...

Compliance | March 11th, 2003

House Extends Mental Health Parity Law

November 15, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US House of Representatives passed a bill to extend for a year a federal law mandating employers and health insurers to offer...

Administration | March 11th, 2003

Friedman Billings To Acquire the Rest of FBR Asset

November 15, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Friedman, Billings Ramsey Group Inc. will acquire the remaining portion of FBR Asset Investment Corp. in a $772 million deal.

Compliance | March 11th, 2003

Senate Bill Brings "Catch-Up" Contributions to Federal Plan

November 15, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Senate has approved legislation allowing some older federal employees and members of the armed forces to make catch-up contributions to the...

Administration | March 11th, 2003

Hershey Trust Board to Get Makeover

November 15, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The board of trustees of the charitable trust that controls Hershey Foods Corp. is getting some new faces and will end up a...

Compliance | March 11th, 2003

Six More Men Charged In Ohio Hedge Fund Scheme

November 15, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) is charging six additional people in an Ohio hedge fund scheme that allegedly defrauded investors of $15...

Administration | March 11th, 2003

Tar Heel Officials Extend "Merrill Lynch Principles" Compliance Deadline

November 15, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Investment companies interested in doing business with the state of North Carolina now have another 10 weeks to comply with tough new ethics...

Benefits | March 11th, 2003

Insurance Gap Touches One in Three Americans

March 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Approximately one in three Americans, or 74.7 million people under the age of 65, were without health insurance at some point in 2001...

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