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August 21, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - Morningstar has introduced the Morningstar Managed Portfolios program, a portfolio-management service for advisors who want to use external professionals for additional help with portfolio...

June 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fidelity now offers a new tool for plan sponsors struggling with compensation decisions.

June 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Highly compensated workers now have online access to Paragon Life Insurance Company accounts.

June 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) ?Labor Department officials have "substantially liberalized" rules governing how much sponsors can charge back to their plan for participant communications, a consultant group says.

June 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - After a full day of discussion Wednesday, the Senate will likely move closer to some consideration of the patients' bill of rights legislation...

September 6, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Kaiser Aluminum is trying to dig its way out of bankruptcy- and has gotten court approval to sweeten an executive retention pool, even...

September 6, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The paychecks of obese workers are, on average, about 2.5% less than the paychecks of their thinner coworkers, according to a new study.

September 6, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - American Airlines has settled a suit brought by a Muslim woman denied a job because she wanted to wear a religious headscarf at...

September 6, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Most workers are safer in the office than they were before September 11, but security procedures are still inconsistently enforced at some smaller...

June 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Japan's version of the 401(k) plan cleared another hurdle today ? setting the stage for a vote in the Upper House plenary session...

September 6, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US unemployment rate dipped to a five-month low in August at 5.7%, but the domestic job-making machine is apparently still largely moribund,...

September 6, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors looking for a new series of performance benchmarks might find a solution in a new series of indexes from FTSE.

May 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee will hold a hearing Tuesday on trends in retiree health benefits.

May 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Speaking at the AICPA National Conference on Employee Benefits In Washington DC, David Walker, Comptroller General at the US General Accounting Office, discussed...

May 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Northern Trust Retirement Consulting (NTRC) is cutting the wires, expanding its Retirement Passport to include wireless applications for 401(k) plan participants.

May 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In an effort to simplify its identity in all parts of the retirement plan services market, New York Life Investment Management LLC (NYLIM)...

May 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - mPower and Standard & Poor's have formed a strategic alliance that will bring S&P's Retirement Services business, including advice technology, products and customers...

September 5, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - First-time jobless claims posted a drop, but still clung stubbornly to the key 400,000 mark for the second straight week.

September 5, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Participants in self-directed accounts mirrored the motions of the market in the second quarter, shirking stocks and heading for the relative safety of...

September 5, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The New York Times Job Market Confidence Index, which regularly polls New York area hiring managers and job seekers, dropped 10 points in...