Administration

October 7, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pennsylvania Auditor General Jack Wagner said 87% of the state's 1,488 municipalities receiving state aid for their pension plans covering fire, police, and non-uniformed personnel...

October 6, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – According to a new report by the Society of Actuaries (SOA), as a group, sponsors of private, single-employer defined benefit pension plans will...

October 6, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The UBS Global Asset Management US Pension Fund Fitness Tracker found the typical pension...

October 6, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - S&P Indices announced dividend increases rose 17.1% during the third quarter of 2011, with 350 issues increasing their dividends.  

October 6, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A poll by National Foundation for Credit Counseling (NFCC) revealed that 24% of more than 1,400 respondents would not tell their spouse if...

October 5, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Having drawn the scrutiny of regulators, Bank of New York Mellon now finds itself the target of another investigation.

 

October 5, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -  The U.S. Department of Labor has filed a complaint in federal court against A.B.D....

October 5, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Investor optimism has plummeted according to a Wells Fargo/Gallup poll, which found two in three investors are feeling a loss of control in...

 

October 5, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The funded status of the typical U.S. corporate pension plan fell 7.9 percentage points...

October 5, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Russell Investments launched four Small Cap Investment Discipline exchange-traded funds (ETFs) on NASDAQ.
 

October 5, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -  A Cerulli report contends that while managed accounts are stable from an investment-risk and a regulatory standpoint, operational risk remains a concern. 
 

October 5, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Justice Department and New York’s attorney general filed separate civil lawsuits against the Bank of New York Mellon Corp.  

October 4, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Legal & General Investment Management America (LGIMA) announced that pension funding ratios fell approximately 22% in the third quarter of 2011. 
 

October 4, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The aggregate deficit in pension plans sponsored by S&P 1500 companies increased by $134 billion during September, from a deficit of approximately $378...

October 4, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -  RBC Dexia Investor Services and Grant Thornton in Canada report that 83% of Canadian defined benefit (DB) plan members/participants trust that when they...

October 3, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Target date retirement funds (TDRFs) will represent nearly half of the total $7.7 trillion in U.S. defined contribution assets by 2020, according to...

October 3, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Transamerica Retirement Services announced the results of a national listening tour with third party...

October 3, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Aon Risk Maturity Index has found there is a positive relationship between the maturity of an organization's risk management framework and its...

October 2, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The retirement fund for Oklahoma public schools teachers is expected to eliminate its unfunded liability in 22 years, reports Tulsa World. 
 

September 30, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The world’s largest public pension fund, in Japan, will start investing in emerging market...