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October 23, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The wave of fund acquisitions continues again this week, with New York Life Investment Management acquiring the assets of Towneley Capital Management.

October 11, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Affluent women are more risk averse than their male counterparts, but both sexes lack knowledge on retirement investment alternatives for conservative investors, a...

October 11, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mellon Investor Services has partnered up with Societe Generale (SG) to manage employee stock option and shareholder plans for multinational issuers in the US...

November 9, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A disproportionate number of Ford Motor Company's fifty-something midlevel managers were given the lowest grade in the company's performance evaluation system in 2000,...

November 9, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - General Motors employees can now log in from home to access their 401(k) accounts, electronic pay stubs, e-learning enrollment, and other company services,...

September 11, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Trading at the New York Stock Exchange was cancelled and the building evacuated following the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in...

November 9, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The United Auto Workers' (UAW) 19-member executive board unanimously nominated Ron Gettelfinger for the presidency of the powerful US trade union in a...

September 11, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - HR professionals who are frustrated with searching through tedious catalogs and brochures for skills training courses for their staff can now get help...

September 11, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - McGraw-Hill Lifetime Learning has developed a course to educate employees on how to best avoid lawsuits.

September 11, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Due to the national emergency prompted by the attacks on the World Trade Center and other locations, LIMRA International has canceled its conferences...

November 8, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - After already delaying raises for its employees, Hewlett-Packard has decided to suspend pay increases until its business recovers from the slump in technology...

November 8, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - M&T Bank and Benefit Resource, Inc, a third-party benefits administrator, have streamlined Qualified Transportation Expense(QTE) programs with the launch of eTRAC, a stored...

November 8, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The number of Americans claiming unemployment benefits for the first time dropped by 46,000 in the week ending November 3, a decrease of...

November 8, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The UK pension market continues undergoing dramatic changes as companies increasingly start defined contribution plans, move money out of domestic equities and hire...

November 8, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Nasdaq Stock Market's new chief executive, Harwick Simmons, on Thursday revealed the exchange's plans to expand into other countries.

July 11, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As plan sponsors continue to expand the availability of financial advice to their employees, signs are emerging that usage rates may be on...

July 11, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Sporting enhanced content, an Internet site for human resource professionals made a fresh appearance this week.

July 11, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - First Union has targeted female investors with an e-mail program focused on their particular concerns.

November 7, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nearly a third (32%) of US workers are concerned about being harmed in future terrorist attacks, compared with just 23% worried about being laid...

November 7, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) Nearly half (44%) of laid off workers say their employer did not communicate effectively the rationale for the job cuts, yet that was deemed...