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July 30, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - First Mercantile Trust Company has named Brian Laskaris as product manager for its employee benefit programs.

July 30, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Assets of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) decreased by nearly $4 billion in June, but international ETFs managed to gain ground.

July 29, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Investors fled US equity mutual funds in droves last month, pulling out more than $18 billion on a net basis, according to an...

July 29, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Danny J. Bowers, chief investment officer of the $1.6 billion Houston Firefighters' Relief and Retirement Fund, has left the fund to pursue other...

July 29, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Human resource professionals appear to be caught between the rock of cost constraints and the hard place of tight budgets, according to a...

July 26, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Better times have restored some of the luster to employee paychecks at Franklin Resources.

July 26, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Smoke-free workplaces appear to be cutting down on smoking outside of work as well.

July 26, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Deposits to unit investment trusts totaled $923.8 million in June, down from the previous month's $957.9 million, but a substantial decrease from a...

December 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The president of a New York investment consulting firm has been charged with paying illegal kickbacks to a union pension fund trustee.

December 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors could soon have to deal with some additional constraints on employer stock investments under separate bills proposed in the House and...

December 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The mental health parity bill was formally ejected from the fiscal 2002 spending bill for the US Department of Health and Human Services.

December 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two Connecticut agencies, which fired employees for talking to clients about their religious beliefs at work, did not violate the First Amendment and...

December 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Department of Labor (DoL)'s Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration (PWBA) will publish the Year 2001 Form M-1 annual report for multiple...

December 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Most plan sponsors have yet to inform their participants about the changes that the Economic Growth & Tax Relief Reconciliation Act (EGTRRA) has...

December 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Three-quarters of money managers expect their institutional clients to turn up the pressure on listed companies on corporate governance and disclosure issues in...

December 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Lawyers for LTV Corp., one of a growing number of American steel companies now bankrupt, told a federal bankruptcy judge that the company...

December 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Yet another employer with troubled stock could find itself under the piercing scrutiny of a participant lawsuit, as law firm Keller Rohrback says...

November 19, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fidelity Investments Canada Limited has upgraded its Web site.

November 19, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors who want to take their fiduciary responsibilities a step further might find Securian Retirement Services' new due diligence program worth investigating.

November 19, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - Some 88% of investment professionals classify employee stock options grants as compensation - and believe that they should be recognized as an expense in...