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May 13, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New British Airways employees will be offered a defined contribution plan instead of the air carrier's traditional defined benefit final salary program, starting...

May 13, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - KeyCorp. said it has agreed to acquire nearly all of the mortgage loan and real estate business of Conning Asset Management including its...

(May 13, 2002) -The UK Accounting Standards Board blames the weak equity market for the demise of the UK defined benefit pension plans.

May 13, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Shareholders - including 401(k) participants - of toolmaker Stanley Works will get a second chance to vote on the firm's controversial decision to...

April 25, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The House Ways and Means Committee has approved the Comprehensive Retirement Security and Pension Reform Act (H.R. 10) by a vote of 35...

April 25, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pension plan sponsors are looking for performance measurement and risk management information on the Web -but they appear to be looking in vain,...

April 25, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court in Manhattan has upheld claims by McGraw-Hill stopping Vanguard from using the S&P 500 and other Standard & Poor's...

April 25, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Financial professionals are increasingly embracing the Web as a way of doing business, according to a new survey.

April 1, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The General Accounting Office (GAO) says the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. (PBGC) is increasingly dipping into pension fund accounts to pay for administrative...

April 1, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - McDermott International Inc has launched a review into the possibility of re-domesticating back from Panama to the United States.

April 1, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) will assume responsibility for paying pension benefits to more than 6,000 US Airways pilots.

April 1, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The heads of large public pensions funds are continuing their activist stance with a new campaign against global warming because of its effects...

April 1, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The San Jose Mercury News joined a University of California (UC) employees union in suing UC regents to force disclosure of the university...

April 25, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new bill has been introduced in the Senate that would provide tax credits to employers and individuals for IT training expenses.

April 25, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An employer can require an independent medical exam (IME) for job-related purposes without establishing that the company "regards" the worker as disabled, according...

January 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Bush administration has slashed the government's monthly mass layoffs report, citing cost concerns.

January 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Bush administration has slashed the government's monthly mass layoffs report, citing cost concerns.

March 25, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Shareholder returns are significantly higher at firms with higher levels of executive stock ownership, according to a new study.

March 13, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new study suggests that there is still a pronounced gender difference among Internet users with male Web surfers largely holding professional or...

March 13, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Consulting firm Hewitt Associates Inc. has filed for a $250-million initial public offering (IPO) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).