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July 11, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Cash severance payments to terminated employees have plunged by 20% in the last four years, a recent survey finds.

November 7, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - 1Point Administrative Services has created the SafeSolo 401k Plan, a Safe Harbor plan for small employers concerned about the cost and complexity of administering...

November 7, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - Although professional investors want more detail and clarity in financial statements, and recognize the limitations of pro forma results, they still consider such reporting...

November 7, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - Waste Management Inc. has agreed to pay $457 million to settle a class-action lawsuit led by the Connecticut Treasury, filed after an accounting scandal...

November 7, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Ways & Means Committee approved the Retirement Security Advice Act authored by Education & the Workforce Chairman John Boehner (R-Ohio), by a vote...

July 10, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Over a third of US employees with a workplace online connection are having their Internet and e-mail usage monitored continuously, according to a...

July 10, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors who use automatic enrollment to get employees going with their retirement savings may not be helping them as much as they...

October 19, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A recent survey by The Spaulding Group found that while Association for Investment Management and Research (AIMR) standards are used by a majority...

October 19, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Amvescap has been declared the winner in a bidding contest for UK fund manager Perpetual for $1.5 billion in cash/shares, outbidding Citicorp and...

July 10, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Classifications of investment style mislead investors because they don?t differentiate enough between manager types, nor correctly assess performance, according to a report by...

July 10, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Preliminary estimates show the Average U.S. Hedge Fund returned 1.5% net in June, according to Steven A. Lonsdorf, CEO of Van Hedge Fund...

July 10, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Frank Russell Company has completed its annual index reconstitution process, and has posted new, official membership lists for its broad market Russell...

October 19, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor has published a final rule amending the circumstances under which small pension plans are exempt from the requirement to...

October 19, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - GoldK has enhanced its 401(k) service to include model portfolios designed by mutual fund companies participating in GoldK's investment platform, 401(k) Mall.

September 19, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The money manager buying binge, or at least the rumors, continue unabated this week. Germany's Allianz AG is reportedly in preliminary talks with...

July 9, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Total annual income for engineers, a profession that seems to have escaped the downsizing tsunami, rose 4.6%, according to a new survey.

July 9, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) ? The AARP says it will lend a helping hand to an age discrimination class action suit against Ford Motor Co.

September 7, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -- An employer's failure to clarify that short-term disability leave counts under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) does not entitle an employee...

September 7, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has ruled in favor of more than 1,000 McDonnell Douglas workers, finding that the firm closed a plant to avoid...

September 7, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors now have a new alternative when hiring a benefit plan auditor.