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The BenefitsLink Newsletter December 28, 1999 What's New - Top Stories Competition Pushing Down Investment Costs Newsweek [More like this] Schwab to Use Financial Engines, mPower to Offer Online Investment Advice Yahoo! News [More like this] Which to Use First: Taxable or Tax-Deferred Accounts? Motley Fool [More like this] The Perils of Market Timing Motley Fool [More like this] Success Is Never Final: Mass Blue Cross/Blue Shield Is a Survivor Boston Globe [More like this] Per Diem Business Reimbursements Hewitt Associates [More like this] Chicagoland Health Expenses To Surge In 2000 Chicago Sun-Times [More like this] 401(k) Advice To Employees By Companies Is Lacking Alabama Live [More like this] Plan Well: Future Is Now For Women's Retirement USA Today [More like this] BenefitsBoards.net - Top Topics Announcement 2000-1 creates new problems for noncompliant 457 plans Can someone remind me when it is required to choose your testing method for ADP & ACP testing purposes versus being able to use the "better of" current year or prior year numbers? OK to continue 401(k) of seller after asset sale? Any issues to consider? Improved Employee Benefits Conferences Listing Post a notice of your company's employee benefits conferences, seminars or meetings on the Employee Benefits Conferences listing on BenefitsLink, at no charge. Both commercial and not-for-profit organizations are invited to post. Conference sponsors are encouraged to post tentative dates for upcoming conferences, as well as firm dates. Feel free to post tentative dates that are several years away. By posting your tentative conference dates, you avoid scheduling conflicts with other organizations, so you'll maximize attendance. You'll find a new question on the posting form, which asks whether the conference's dates are "tentative" or "firm." Tentative dates will be displayed in red and will be so labeled on the conference listings. Later, edit your notice to change the "tentative" label to "firm" when you're sure of the dates.

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