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April 6, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - General Electric employees have begun making trades on an online brokerage service, courtesy of their employer.

June 16,2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nvest, the Boston-based investment management firm, will become part of CDC Asset Management, the money management arm of France's Caisse des Depots Group. CDC...

June 4, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Suits alleging fraud in the sale of variable annuities - including those as an investment in 401(k) or IRAs - are preempted by...

June 4, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In the last four years, assets invested in Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) have grown by an average compound rate of 128%, outpacing all...

June 4, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - LIMRA International extended its Web site to feature a community portal focusing on retirement issues.

June 4, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - E*TRADE Group, Inc announced plans to offer a range of proprietary portfolios, built by Standard & Poor's (S&P), through its Stock Basket platform.

June 16, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - OppenheimerFunds Friday announced the recent launch of a new retirement program for businesses with fewer than 50 employees.

June 4, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Investment management and advisory firm Frank Russell is targeting investors outside the United States with the launch of a fund of hedge funds,...

June 4, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Dow Jones Indexes now offers an index series that measures the performance of diversified portfolios that hold stocks, bonds and money market instruments.

June 4, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Participants of SunGard Corbel retirement plans can now access Morningstar's ClearFuture modules, research and advice through a new alliance between the two companies.

June 4, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Citistreet has launched a new option for plan sponsors at small businesses who are setting up their first retirement plan.

April 6, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As anticipated, the unemployment rate increased from 4.2% to 4.3% in March, a level not seen since July 1999, the Department of Labor...

June 4, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -Some form of Social Security privatization is supported by 43% of US investors polled in a survey.

April 6, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.COM)- Personal contacts and networking were rated the most effective tactic in job-hunting or recruiting by both human resource professionals and job seekers, according to a...

April 6, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A man who got drunk while on a business trip and suffered severe frostbite after passing out in the cold is entitled to...

May 4, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Merrill Lynch is closing its Internet Strategies Fund barely a year after launching it at NASDAQ's March 2000 peak.

May 4, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Investment banks Credit Suisse First Boston, Lehman Brothers and UBS Warburg have bought equity stakes in the electronic bond trading firm BondBook LLC.

April 5, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a partnership with online-education company UNext, General Motors is offering employees a chance to get online MBAs.

April 5, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has ruled that eating is a "major life activity", allowing a job applicant's suit under the Americans with Disabilities...

April 5, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - American firms were handing out pink slips in March at the fastest pace since 1993, according to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.