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August 6, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -New Jersey is a bit closer to heading for the courthouse as state officials look to lay blame for $22 billion in state investment...

August 6, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Not seeing much to their liking as they scoured the investment landscape, venture capitalists returned more money to investors during the second quarter...

August 6, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in the District of Columbia has blocked efforts by a coalition of business groups to challenge the US Department of...

August 6, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Senate Democrats have introduced a bill that would boost the maximum pensions of manufacturing workers who participate in a retirement plan taken over...

August 6, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors working with a financial advisor or broker to set up a 401(k) plan may now find the chore of selecting investment...

July 18, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - RewardsPlus, a provider of Web-based defined benefit delivery solutions, has updated its RealLife Benefits portal.

July 18, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors, who are clients of the Principal Financial group, and want to offer their more conservative 401(k) participants a new stable value...

June 7, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Most insured Americans favor guaranteed benefit health insurance policies and do not want to switch to an employer-based defined contribution plan, a survey...

June 7, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Union workers at Hershey Foods will vote tomorrow on a tentative agreement that could end a six-week strike over health benefits.

June 7, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Milwaukee's new County Executive Scott Walker has asked department heads seeking jobs in his administration to renounce the controversial pension provisions allowed under...

July 18, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - American Express Retirement Services, the retirement division of the financial services group, will largely be unaffected by the round of job cuts the...

July 18, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The American Stock Exchange (AMEX) has created Amex ETF Services, a unit set up to take advantage of business opportunities in the expanding...

July 18, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Canadian Depository for Securities Limited (CDS) plans to speed up the clearing and settlement of debt and equity trades to one day...

June 7, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A sign that the labor market is slowly climbing out of a trough, the unemployment rate fell to 5.8% in May, according to...

June 7, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US household net worth inched up over the first quarter, as stronger real-estate values cancelled out stock market losses, a report from the...

June 7, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Dow Jones Indexes has shuffled the constituents of its Titans indexes as part of its regular annual review.

June 6, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Northern Trust launched Global Investor Passport, a Web site that aims to aid plan sponsors and investors in obtaining and filtering information.

June 6, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Promerio, Inc., an employer administration services company, announced a partnership with YourHRdepartment, Inc., a human resource consulting and outsourcing firm.

June 18, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A growing number of employers are offering a self-directed brokerage option, despite the fact that only a small minority of participants actually take...

June 6, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Barra Inc. has launched a new version of its TotalRisk system, a risk management product for the buy side.