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March 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Median returns for mid-size defined benefit pension funds in the Independent Consultants Cooperative (ICC) Universe last year were lower than in 2000, according...

March 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A long-running sex-discrimination battle with the nation's largest rent-to-own company has ended with an agreement by Rent-A-Center to pay more than 5,000 women...

March 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New UK legislation regulating how companies liquidate their pension funds, which takes effect in April, is expected to speed up payments to plan...

August 2, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - MSCI (Morgan Stanley Capital International) is developing a new family of equity indices that will allow domestic investors to benchmark their investments against...

February 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Former New York area Citigroup employees, who lost money to the group's deferred compensation plan when they left, filed a lawsuit against the...

February 20, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Hedge funds gained $2.7 billion during the fourth quarter of 2000 to bring the total in all hedge funds to about $8 billion,...

August 2, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Talk about a job opportunity made in heaven.

February 20, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Union Bank of Switzerland is finalizing its consolidation plans by combining Mitchell Hutchins Asset Management Inc. with the bank's existing asset management business.

February 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A group of current and former employees of Providian Financial Corp. have filed an ERISA fraud lawsuit against the credit card issuer, charging...

February 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A New York pension fund consultant has admitted guilt in a federal charge of paying kickbacks to a Teamsters pension fund trustee, according...

February 20, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), the nation's largest pension fund with over $165 billion in assets, has completed its international manager...

February 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - It's getting so you need a scorecard to keep up with the plethora of pension protection proposals emanating from Congress. Yesterday Senator Paul...

February 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - For Brenda Enlow, not wearing pants was a religious matter, but supervisors at an Indiana metal fabricating factory objected to skirts and dresses,...

February 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a position statement on the Enron case and the legislation being drafted in the wake of the company's bankruptcy, the National Defined...

February 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Magner.network announced the formation of its new retirement services subsidiary - Magner Retirement Services.

February 20, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors and participants who use OppenheimerFunds will now have more mutual funds to choose from as a result of an expansion plan...

February 20, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Clients of William M. Mercer Investment Consulting, Inc. will now have access to performance evaluation data and analytics from Russell/Mellon Analytical Services as...

February 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two Enron human resource executives Thursday denied that any unauthorized payments took place from the company's retirement funds.

February 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - House Education & the Workforce Chairman John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Employer-Employee Relations Subcommittee Chairman Sam Johnson (R-Texas) will introduce legislation proposed by President...

February 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Concerns about fees, conflicted interests and the need for greater employee involvement in plan administrative activities dominated the tone in the second day...