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April 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - State Street Bank and Trust Company wants to reconsider its agreement with Enron to assume oversight of the company's three pension plans, in...

March 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US workers, generally happy to see the demise of the suit and tie, are quick to list the benefits of the shift towards...

March 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internet sector job scene continued improving in February with the amount of announced job cuts well down from January 2002.

March 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mellon Financial Corporation is changing the name of its human-resources services provider from Mellon Employee Benefit Solutions to Mellon HR Solutions.

April 27, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Chase Manhattan has outsourced its recordkeeping operation to Fidelity, while broadening its Chase Retirement Solutions 401(k) offerings to include Fidelity's Advisor Funds.

April 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A much ballyhooed agreement brokered by the US Department (DoL) to install new management over Enron's retirement plans is apparently unraveling.

April 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The UK's stakeholder pension program, touted as the solution to the nation's savings shortfall, is failing to live up to the government's expectations,...

April 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Capital Resource Advisors may have gotten less than it bargained for with its recent acquisition of BARRA RogersCasey (BRC) - as a number...

April 27, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - American Century entered the online participant advice arena today with its Fund Advisor, offering free, fund-specific investment advice.

March 15, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - CIGNA Retirement & Investment Services has added three new institutional funds to its CIGNA Charter Funds family of commingled separate accounts.

February 15, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Minnesota Life is planning to launch an Internet site where participants can estimate pension benefits.

In a legislative session frequently marred by partisan bickering, the need for dramatic pension reform drew an astounding level of bipartisan support in 2000 - only to run...

February 15, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More restructuring is needed in the European Union in order for securities trading and clearing to remain competitive, according to a new report.

February 15, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Institutional investors have to decide whether existing disclosure provisions on stock option packages are sufficient or run the risk that new disclosure and...

January 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Participant expectations for the market may finally be coming back down to earth - at least some of them, according to a new...

January 15, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Securities and Exchange Commission is looking into trading practices at mutual funds, concerned that they may be "pumping" their portfolios - end-of-quarter...

January 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Vanguard Extended Market (VEM) Vanguard Index Participation Equity Receipts (VIPERS), an exchange-traded fund (ETF) that tracks the Wilshire 4500 Completion Index, will begin...

January 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Scudder Retirement Services has added a third Retirement Learning Series tutorial to the Just Starting section of its Scudder University participant Web site.

February 28, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The number of newly unemployed claiming benefits increased last week, while the key four-week moving average edged down to its lowest level in...

February 28, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -The number of advertisements for job openings is no longer declining, indicating that the demand for labor seems to have bottomed out, according to...