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February 5, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employee benefit costs made up over a third of company payroll expenses in 2001.

May 2, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A bankrupt Minneapolis company is asking a US Bankruptcy Judge to approve a deal to settle its claims with the federal private pension...

February 5, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Information Technology (IT) staff ratios are increasingly being supported with contractor workers and a higher budget for permanent employees.

May 2, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - BNP Paribas is criticizing Standard & Poor's (S&P) approach to incorporating pension calculations into credit analysis and the rating agency's reflection of pension...

February 5, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fourth-quarter wages for tech workers dropped 3.1% in 2002 as compared with the same period of 2001, according to the Yoh Index of...

May 2, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A public hearing is set for next week in Washington to hear testimony about a Northwest Airlines request for an ERISA exemption to...

February 5, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Larger companies have turned to HR/Benefits outsourcing as a way to take advantage of a provider's technology, expertise and to ease administrative headaches.

April 26, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - PricewaterhouseCoopers and NetRisk have combined their operational risk service resources to form OpVantage, a new software company that will quantify operational risk for...

April 26, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - SEI Investments now provides managed accounts functionality to its clients with the added safeguard of its manager-of managers program.

April 26, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) cleared the way for CIGNA Retirement & Investment Services to add banking products to its retirement...

April 26, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Employment Cost Index (ECI), which measures changes in compensation, including wages, salaries and benefit costs, increased by 4.1% in the year ending...

April 26, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The passage of the Investor and Capital Markets Fee Relief Act, aimed to lower fees on securities transactions and increase pay for Securities...

April 26, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Most of the slim $2 billion increase in combined investments for 401(k) plans between 1999 and 2000 was due to contributions by employers...

April 2, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Union presidents who reaped $5.6 million from a stock-repurchase program at a labor-owned financial services and insurance firm they helped direct should be...

February 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A growing number of employees are using the Internet to signup for benefits, and most appear to be happy with the alternative, according...

April 2, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New York City is not anticipating taking the hit of an $80 million securities lending imbroglio the City's pension funds finds itself in...

February 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Organizations responding to a recent survey say they struggle to comply with complex and length regulations governing the Family and Medical Leave Act...

February 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With US equity mutual funds still struggling with a tenacious bear market during January, fund managers will continue to have a hard time...

February 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Company performance management programs got less than sterling grades in a recent survey.

February 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With the threat of war in Iraq hanging over them, US employers were reluctant to hire and ready to shed 42% more workers...