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May 7, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Wells Fargo and Co., the fifth largest US bank holding company, has agreed to buy some institutional trust and custody businesses from larger...

May 7, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Arthur Andersen has reached another settlement deal regarding its role in the collapse of the Baptist Foundation of Arizona, the largest non-profit bankruptcy...

July 5, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - European settlement houses Euroclear and Crest Co. announced plans to merge yesterday, creating Europe's biggest settlement system for both stocks and bonds.

July 5, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Average US Hedge Fund lost ground in June but still outperformed major US equity benchmarks, according to a preliminary report from Van...

July 5, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's unemployment rate edged up slightly in June, despite an increase in job openings.

May 7, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - BB&T Corporation has announced plans to form a new benefits and investment services firm by combining a company it acquired in 1998 with...

May 31, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Another plan sponsor may soon find itself in court fending off a class action suit from Sprenger & Lang, the law firm currently...

May 31, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Richard Curtis, Executive Director of the $700 million Ohio Highway Patrol Retirement System defined benefit plan, has been battling the Securities and Exchange...

May 7, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The only female governor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) has sued her former employer over claims she and other women were...

April 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - INVESCO Funds Group plans to incorporate a speech recognition feature into its toll-free, automated Personal Account Line next month.

April 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co will be the first to use a newly created socially responsible index as the benchmark for a...

April 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Vanguard Group plans to offer a new range of secure online personal financial management services on its Web site.

April 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The growing interest in, and availability of, hedge funds in the plan sponsor community has heightened the importance of the prime broker function,...

April 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad has settled a federal lawsuit from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) that challenged its secret genetic testing...

April 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A hearing by the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education will focus on less onerous alternatives to the...

March 7, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The beleaguered steel industry suffered another casualty Wednesday when National Steel Corp. filed for protection from a federal bankruptcy court - the largest...

March 7, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Deutsche Bank has agreed to buy RoPro U.S. Holding Inc., a holding company for the real estate investment manager RREEF.

March 7, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Retirement plan trading restrictions on company stock may not be as extensive as some might have feared, a new study indicates.

March 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The number of companies sponsoring an employee stock ownership plan, or ESOP, has declined significantly over the past decade, but the average amount...

March 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The tight labor market has slowed employer adoption - but not the interest - in a defined contribution model for healthcare, according to...