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April 25, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A class action suit starts in Minneapolis Thursday over whether NCR had the right to reduce health subsidies and eliminate Medicare supplementation to...

April 24, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Lucent Technologies announced Monday that Deborah Hopkins, chief financial officer at Boeing, will become its CFO, effective immediately. Hopkins will be responsible for...

April 20, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In the third high-level defection to the private sector from the California public pension fund system in a few months, Bob Boldt, senior...

April 19, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - CalPERS Wednesday said it needed more time to consider the impact of doubling co-payments for office visits and brand-name prescription drugs for the...

April 18, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Miriam Santos, the Chicago city treasurer who recently won her appeal against a corruption conviction, returned to her old post Monday morning, the...

April 13, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Patrick Mitchell, chief investment officer of the California State Teachers' Retirement System, has resigned effective July 15 to pursue other career interests. It's...

April 13, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Frank Russell Company introduced three new equity indexes this week. The Tacoma, WA, investment management and advisory firm, said in a statement these...

April 13, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Central banker Alan Greenspan Thursday suggested policymakers allow the proliferating financial exchanges to centralize, because "in times of stress, liquidity simply may not...

December 4, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Participant services are once again at the top of plan sponsor hiring considerations, but quality of plan sponsor services was a close second,...

December 4, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Merrill Lynch has added Speech-recognition to its 401(k) Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system, allowing participants to access information and initiate transactions by speaking...

April 11, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Alan Greenspan, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Tuesday said that he expects job anxiety to stay high, with the rapid pace of...

October 4, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nearly five thousand pensioners have been reconnected with their "missing" pensions totaling some $10 million during the past year, thanks to the Pension...

October 4, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - InvestLink Technologies has integrated Standard & Poor's Web-based education and advice services with their recordkeeping system, TotalServiceManager.

October 4, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new banking combination could offer additional choices for plan sponsors, as Firstar and US Bancorp have agreed to merge in a stock...

April 10, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Hedge funds on average outperformed the S&P 500 in the last quarter, booking gains for the sixth consecutive quarter, according to preliminary estimates...

April 10, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Six leading banks plan to set up a joint venture to create an online trading network for interest rate derivatives.

August 4, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Calvert Group plans to launch the Calvert Social Investment Fund Technology Portfolio, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

November 3, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Old Mutual has teamed up with CalPERS, the nation's largest public pension system, to establish eSecLending, LLC, a web-based auction system for securities...

November 3, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Chief executive officers (CEOs) at the vast majority of large corporations are holding on to their stock options, rather than cashing in, according...

October 3, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Despite shared concerns about executive compensation, the nation's largest public employee union and the country's largest public employee pension fund are currently on...