Administration

October 27, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Four former San Diego city officials have reached an agreement with the Securities and Exchange Commission to settle allegations that they misled investors...

October 25, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Companies worldwide are adapting their investor relations (IR) strategies to reach out to hedge funds and sovereign wealth funds, according to a BNY...

October 25, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Securities and Exchange Commission is working to have new technology to handle tips and complaints in place by the end of the...

October 22, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The State Street Private Equity Index for the quarter ended June 30, 2010, posted a 0.65% return, 157 basis points lower than the...

October 22, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New Jersey’s $70.2-billion state public pension fund is negotiating reductions in fees and expenses for private managers after paying $125 million last year,...

October 22, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) has entered into a letter agreement with CIM Group designating CIM as a strategic investment manager...

October 21, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) has accused four money management firms of violating their fiduciary duties by causing hundreds of millions of...

October 21, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pension funded status for U.S. plans showed a marginal improvement in the third quarter, increasing from 80% to 82%, according to a new...

October 20, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Federal securities regulators are investigating bonds issued by the city of Bell, California, which has been caught up in a public pay and pensions...

October 19, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A new study suggests that raising employee contributions alone will not solve California’s growing pension funding crisis.

October 14, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Sixty-eight percent of institutional investors believe a double-dip recession is unlikely, according to a Northern Trust Global Advisors (NTGA) poll.

October 14, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Aon Corporation has announced a $325 million restructuring plan, undertaken in connection with its acquisition of Hewitt Associates, in which 1,500 to 1,800...

October 12, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Fifty percent of U.S.-based financial services professionals are expecting higher bonuses for this year’s performance as compared with last year, according to a new...

October 11, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) is severing its ties with Pacific Corporate Group (PCG) as part of an ongoing strategic review...

October 8, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Mercer Investment Consulting is ending its investment consulting advisory services to U.S. public-sector defined benefit plans, the company has announced.

October 8, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Research from Fidelity Investments indicates investors are redefining how they measure financial success amid changing confidence levels and risk tolerance in today’s fluctuating...

George Castineiras, senior vice president of Client Relations and Business Development for Prudential Retirement spoke to PLANSPONSOR to clarify details of Prudential’s new key account team structure.

October 8, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The UBS Global Asset Management U.S. Pension Fund Fitness Tracker found that the typical pension plan’s funding ratio dropped by approximately 1% during...

October 8, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Securities and Exchange Commission announced fraud charges against more than a dozen penny stock promoters and their companies, including a star on...

October 7, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Former New York state Comptroller Alan Hevesi has pleaded guilty to a felony corruption charge for accepting free travel and campaign contributions from...